While choosing Nepali language. I see there are slight differences between the layout provided by Ubuntu's Keyboard Layout vs. the standard font layout provided for Nepali language.

I am also not able to install the provided font. Is there a way to correct this ?

I get the Font from

and the layout is

and the Ubuntu's layout is :

There are no symbols - !@#$%^&*() .

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There is a known issue with Nepali romanized keyboard shipped with certain version of Ubuntu. correct version here

The Nepali Romanized Keyboard layout shipped with Ubuntu (located at /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/np) is incomplete. The definition for the whole upper row (1-0 keys) are missing. Also, more importantly, zero-width joiner (ZWJ) and zero-width non-joiner (ZWNJ) characters are wrongly defined

Jwalanta tackles this problem in detail in his blog

there is keyboard layout editor if you want to create a new layout yourself This has some issues in 12.04 but there are workarounds

edit:

I got tired with issues in standard layout so built these based on iBus

• one similar to Preeti and other ttf fonts
• transliteration based

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