Richard Wordingham wrote:

> [...]
> > the <DELETE> key would erase the whole "ki" cluster. It is never
> > possible to
> > place the cursor "between" a consonant and its matra.
>
> That is horrible.

That's always been also my impression. However, *if* this behavior is really
what Indian users want, well...

Thinking about it, this is exactly what happens in Western scripts with
"accented" letters, and I don't find it innatural (probably just because I
am used to it). Typing in Italian I keep using the wrong accent all the time
(my dialect misses the phonetic distinctions marked by accents, so I only
rely on memory for which accent should be used), still it doesn't seem
strange that the DELETE and BACKSPACE kill both the accent and the letter
carrying it.

--
Marco