ഈ വരുന്ന ജൂണ് 30 നു് ഒരു പ്രത്യേകതയുണ്ടു്. ആ ദിവസത്തിന്റെ ദൈര്ഘ്യം 24 മണിക്കൂറും ഒരു സെക്കന്റും ആണു്. അധികം വരുന്ന ഈ ഒരു സെക്കന്റിനെ ലീപ് സെക്കന്റ് അല്ലെങ്കില് അധിക നിമിഷം എന്നാണു് വിളിക്കുന്നതു്. നമ്മള് സാധാരണ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന കൈയില് കെട്ടുന്ന വാച്ചുകളിലോ ചുമര് ക്ലോക്കുകളിലോ ഒന്നും ഇതു കണ്ടെന്നു വരില്ല. അല്ലെങ്കിലും…Continue Reading →
At Wikimedia, I am currently working on ContentTranslation tool, a machine aided translation system to help translating articles from one language to another. The tool is deployed in several wikipedias now and people are creating new articles sucessfully. The ContentTranslation…Continue Reading →
Keraleeyam is a new unicode malayalam font designed for titles. It was originally designed in 2005 for ‘Keraleeyam’, a magazine supporting environmental movements in Kerala, with ASCII encoding and was distributed along with Rachana editor software. Unicode font feature tables for malayalam are complex, which…Continue Reading →
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 the font using this edtiable page http://smc.org.in/downloads/fonts/chilanka/tests/…Continue Reading →
This is a short documentation on getting Wacom Bamboo CTH301K working in Debian. I use Debian Sid with Linux kernel 3.16 at the time of writing this. But this should work with latest Ubuntu(14.04 or 14.10) and new kernels. Wacom…Continue Reading →
I presented the Content Translation project of my team at Wikimania 2014 at London. Here is the video of the presentation.
Six years back I wrote a javascript version of popular Swanalekha input method. Friends were requesting web based version that they can use in Windows platforms too. Swanalekha was initially written as a SCIM input method and later m17n input…Continue Reading →
Video of our presentation from 7th Multilingual Workshop by W3C, Madrid, Spain, May 7-8 Best Practices on the Design of Translation- Pau Giner, David Chan and Santhosh Thottingal. Abstract: Wikipedia is one of the most multilingual projects on the web today….Continue Reading →
XeTeX is an extension of TeX with built-in support for Unicode and OpenType. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to typeset Malayalam using XeTeX. With some learning effort, we can produce high quality typesetting using XeTeX. Installing…Continue Reading →
How to configure Ubuntu 14.04 for typing in Malayalam