autokey hangs with non-latin indic (devanagari, telugu, bengali, hindi) with paste using "keyboard" method

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. add a my phrase with hindi text क्षमा assign to say &
2. make sure only paste using "keyboard" is selected save it
3. press &, and we cannot type anything now!

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Indic keyboard has virama sign which joins two or more characters, 
क + ् + ष = क्ष (k + Sh = ksh) as soon as the character is formed, 
the virama is gone! so, i suppose autokey trying to type ksh which is a 
combination form for 2 characters, causing this keyboard jam!

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
autokey 0.71.0

Please provide any additional information below.
enabling paste using clipboard fixes and works as expected.

1. autokey should try to determine whether there are non-latin characters, and 
accordingly suggest use 'clipboard' or alternately, have automatic phrase test 
dialog, which can handle such issues in advance.

thank you so much for developing and making it available for us :) really 
appreciate your kind endeavors!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by fast.riz...@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2010 at 1:03

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I am attaching the "phrase" which hangs with keyboard, though the exported 
phrase correctly shows virama character between k + virama + Sh as "phrase": 
"\u0915\u094d\u0937".

Strange that the unicode characters are not changing to kSh with the same 
keystrokes, should there be a keyboard delay for keying in the characters???

Original comment by fast.riz...@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2010 at 1:23

Attachments:

• third-phrase.aky

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I'm using KDE SC 4.4.5 and QT 4.6.3.

Original comment by fast.riz...@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2010 at 2:21

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Might be possible to implement at some stage

Original comment by cdekter on 7 Aug 2010 at 3:58

• Changed state: Accepted

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I am probably experiencing the same thing, I've been wanting macros for certain 
characters, which I cannot do with autokey.  For example, ಠ_ಠ

Original comment by nosr...@gmail.com on 26 Jun 2011 at 7:43

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I'm afraid X simply doesn't allow you to map such exotic unicode chars as 
simple keys. You will need to use paste via clipboard or mouse selection.

Original comment by cdekter on 12 Sep 2011 at 6:29

• Changed state: WontFix

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But that defeats the whole point of having autokey in the first place.

Original comment by nosr...@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2011 at 6:39