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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon varnamproject

Tamil scheme fixes

Open Kishore96in opened this issue 5 years ago • 8 comments

I have added the letter combination which is usually used for 'fa' (ஃப), and added 'za' to the list of sounds representing 'ஜ'.

Kishore96in avatar Dec 09 '19 13:12 Kishore96in

I have also made some minor corrections to the existing mappings.

Kishore96in avatar Dec 24 '19 06:12 Kishore96in

Hi @Kishore96in, I'd like to know how Tamil is written in computers. Can you please let us know here if there are any other transliteration software ? Do you use Varnam yourself ?

subins2000 avatar Sep 15 '20 17:09 subins2000

Hi @Kishore96in, I'd like to know how Tamil is written in computers. Can you please let us know here if there are any other transliteration software ? Do you use Varnam yourself ?

On Windows, Google input tools is available (and is actually pretty good). Apparently they also added Tamil transliteration natively in Windows 10 some time last year.

I am not aware of any transliteration software other than varnam which works natively on Linux and supports Tamil (Google input tools has a chrome extension, but I don't think it can be used in other applications). Currently, I am on Linux, and so I am using varnam (specifically, the ibus interface).

Kishore96in avatar Sep 16 '20 05:09 Kishore96in

Thanks for the response @Kishore96in, are there any key-mapping transliteration tools like swanalekha for Tamil ? What about on the web ? Google Input Tools is the majorty used ?

subins2000 avatar Sep 17 '20 13:09 subins2000

Thanks for the response @Kishore96in, are there any key-mapping transliteration tools like swanalekha for Tamil ? What about on the web ? Google Input Tools is the majorty used ?

I don't know enough to comment on the usage statistics, sorry.

Kishore96in avatar Sep 17 '20 13:09 Kishore96in

@subins2000 This is good to merge I guess. make vst worked for you?

navaneeth avatar Oct 05 '20 16:10 navaneeth

@navaneeth Just tested this PR, scheme compiled :

Compiling schemes/ta
Building schemes/ta.vst
./varnamc:477: warning: constant ::Fixnum is deprecated
Completed with '0' warning(s) and '0' error(s)
Built target ta.vst

subins2000 avatar Oct 05 '20 16:10 subins2000

Hey @Kishore96in I have made a Go port of libvarnam. Would like to know the Tamil scheme change you made works alright in GoVarnam too: https://github.com/varnamproject/govarnam

Is your changes anyway related to this problem ? https://github.com/varnamproject/govarnam/issues/1

subins2000 avatar Aug 24 '21 18:08 subins2000