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Tamil scheme fixes#152
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@Kishore96in Kishore96in commented Dec 9, 2019

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

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Add fa and za.
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Add unique sound for ஸ்
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Not having a unique identifier messes up learning. Complains about
unknown character.
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Properly write letter ங்
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Sometimes this combination goes across word boundaries, and it is thus
more useful to encode it this way.
@Kishore96in Kishore96in changed the title Tamil scheme: add the commonly used symbols for 'fa' and 'za' Tamil scheme fixes Dec 24, 2019
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Kishore96in commented Dec 24, 2019

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

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Add 'ங்க' as a secondary transliteration of 'nga'
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This allows varnam to learn that 'kurangu' corresponds to 'குரங்கு
', and not 'குரஙு
', for instance
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Allow to infer ந as dead consonant as well.
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Previous block prevented certain common words from being typed (அந்த,
இந்த, எந்த... )
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subins2000 commented Sep 15, 2020 •
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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 ?

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Kishore96in commented Sep 16, 2020

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).

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subins2000 commented Sep 17, 2020 •
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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 ?

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Kishore96in commented Sep 17, 2020

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.

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navaneeth commented Oct 5, 2020

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

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subins2000 commented Oct 5, 2020

@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

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subins2000 commented Aug 24, 2021

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 ? varnamproject/govarnam#1

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