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If the inherent vowel ‘अ’/ə/ were to follow this Devanagari consonant, then the ‘ा’ diacritic would be attached to it resulting in ‘घ’.

Vowels that are not the inherent ‘अ’ /ə/ such as ‘आ’ /aː/ that follow this Devanagari consonant, then the ‘ा’ diacritic attaches twice, resulting in ‘घा’ with a Latin script representation of ‘Gaa’.

[citation needed] Clip fonts arose as a result of the perceived complexity of keyboard layout switching in common operating system setups, as well as defective internationalization capabilities in older software.

Clip font users can easily write Hindi and other Indic languages using those keyboards.

[4][5] With ASCII, they are used by custom keyboard drivers for Indic scripts, intended to limit keystrokes.

[3] Many users successfully ported this True Type font to operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, some flavours of Unix and Android.

Top : A Devanagari consonant is produced using two parts ( clips ) in a clip font whereas Unicode uses the single glyph ‘घ‘.
Bottom : A conjunct ligature is produced in Unicode by ‘घ’ and ‘य’ separated by the halant and zero-width joiner characters to form ‘घ्य’, whereas a clip font uses three parts ( clips )