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How to install and configure swanalekha in Ubuntu 14.04

Also see Swanalekha input method documentation

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Malayalam typing using Inscript in Ubuntu 14.04

How to configure Ubuntu 14.04 for typing in Malayalam

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New handwriting style font for Malayalam: Chilanka

A new handwriting style font for Malayalam is in development. The font is named as “Chilanka”(ചിലങ്ക). This is a alpha version release. Following is a sample rendering. More samples here. You may try...

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Indic hyphenation patterns relicensed

The hyphenation rules for Indian languages I maintain now relicensed to much permissive MIT license. This was a blocker for to get added to Android, and Firefox.

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Internationalized Top Level Domain Names in Indian Languages

Medianama recently published a news report- “ICANN approves Kannada, Malayalam, Assamese & Oriya domain names“, which says: ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved...

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നമ്മളെല്ലാം നമ്മളല്ലാതാവുന്ന കാലം

എന്റെ പാൻകാർഡിലെ പേരല്ല പാസ്‌പോർട്ടിലുള്ളതു്. വോട്ടേഴ്സ് ഐഡിയിലെ വീട്ടുപേരല്ല പാൻകാർഡിൽ. വീട്ടുപേരാകട്ടെ ഓരോന്നിലും ഓരോന്നാണു്. ചിലതിൽ ഇനിഷ്യൽ മാത്രം. ചിലതിൽ ഇനിഷ്യൽ ചുരുക്കാതെ എഴുതിയതു്. ചിലതു്...

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Malayalam collation updates in Glibc

GNU C library 2.26 released and proud to have my name listed under contributors. Two small patches for localedata were merged: Bug 19919 – iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting order of...

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It is your language and your pen

Google recently added voice typing support to more languages. Among the languages Malayalam is also included. The speech recognition is good quality and I see lot of positive comments in my social...

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Indesign CC automatic hyphenation for Indian languages

More and more publishers are starting to use Indesign CC and Unicode. One of the many adavantages the publishers get with unicode and Indesign cc is automatic hyphenation. A few of my friends told me...

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Scribus gets hyphenation support for 11 Indian languages

Support for hyphenating in 11 Indian languages is now available in Scribus, desktop publishing system. Two years back I had written how Malayalam hyphenation support was added to Scribus. Later, I had...

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