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Santhosh Thottingal: പത്തുവർഷത്തെ കോഡ്
ഭാഷാകമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയർ വികസനപ്രവർത്തനങ്ങളിൽ ഏർപ്പെടാൻ തുടങ്ങിയിട്ട് പത്തുവർഷമാകുന്നു. 2008 ൽ ഒക്കെയാണ് ഈ മേഖലയിൽ സജീവമാകുന്നതും പലതരം പ്രോജക്ടുകൾക്കായി സമയം...
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Balasankar C: DebUtsav Kochi 2018
Heya,Been quite some time since I wrote about anything. This time, it is Debutsav. When it comes to full-fledged FOSS conferences, I usually am an attendee or at most a speaker. I have given some...
View ArticleSanthosh Thottingal: Malayalam morphology analyser – First release
I am happy to announce the first version of Malayalam morphology analyser. After two years of development, I tagged version 1.0.0 . In this releaseIn this release, mlmorph can analyse and generate...
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Rajeesh K Nambiar: Powerline git dirty status without powerline_gitstatus
With git-prompt it is possible to display the dirty state (when a tracked file is modified) by setting the env variable GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=true. Powerline can display the status of a git...
View ArticleSanthosh Thottingal: Malayalam Script LGR rules for public review
The Malayalam and Tamil Root Zone Label Generation Rules for International Domain names have been released for public comments. See the announcement from ICANN. This was drafted by the Neo-Brahmi...
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Santhosh Thottingal: Malayalam spellchecker – a morphology analyser based...
My first attempt to develop a spellchecker for Malayalam was in 2007. I was using hunspell and a word list based approach. It was not successful because of rich morphology of Malayalam. Even though I...
View ArticleSanthosh Thottingal: Malayalam morphology analyser – status update
For the last several months, I am actively working on the Malayalam morphology analyser project. In case you are not familiar with the project, my introduction blog post is a good start. I was always...
View ArticleSanthosh Thottingal: How to customize Malayalam fonts in Linux
Now a days GNU/Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc comes with pre-configured fonts for Malayalam. For Sans-serif family, it is Meera and for serif, it is Rachana. If you like to change...
View ArticleSanthosh Thottingal: യുവാക്കളുടെ തൊഴിലഭിമാനവും തൊഴിൽ സൊസൈറ്റികളും
നമ്മുടെ നാട്ടിലെ യുവാക്കൾ നേരിടുന്ന ഒരു പ്രതിസന്ധിയെപ്പറ്റിയും അതിന് പരിഹാരമായേക്കാവുന്ന ഒരാശയത്തെപ്പറ്റിയും എഴുതിയ ഒരു കുറിപ്പാണിതു്.നമ്മുടെ നാട്ടിൽ സവിശേഷ നൈപുണികൾ ആവശ്യമുള്ള പലതരത്തിലുള്ള...
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Santhosh Thottingal: The many forms of ചിരി ☺️
This is an attempt to list down all forms of Malayalam word ചിരി(meaning: , smile, laugh). For those who are unfamiliar with Malayalam, the language is a highly inflectional Dravidian language. I am...
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Santhosh Thottingal: How to type Malayalam using Keyman 10 and Mozhi
This is a quick tutorial on installing Mozhi input method in Windows 10.Mozhi is a transliteration based keyboard for Malayalam. You can type malayaalam to get മലയാളം for example. We will use Keyman...
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Santhosh Thottingal: Kindle supports custom fonts
I am pleasantly surprised to see that Amazon Kindle now supports installing custom fonts. A big step towards supporting non-latin content in their devices. I can now read Malayalam ebooks in my kindle...
View ArticleSanthosh Thottingal: Talk on ‘Malayalam orthographic reforms’ at Grafematik 2018
Santhosh and I presented a paper on ‘Malayalam orthographic reforms: impact on language and popular culture’ at Graphematik conference held at IMT Atlantique, Brest, France. Our session was chaired by...
View ArticleRajeesh K Nambiar: Adventures in upgrading to Fedora 27/28 using ‘dnf...
[This post was drafted on the day Fedora 27 released, about half a year ago, but was not published. The issue bit me again with Fedora 28, so documenting it for referring next time.]UPDATE: The issue...
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Balasankar C: FOSSAsia 2018 - Singapore
Heya,So I attended my first international FOSS conference - FOSSAsia 2018 at Lifelong learning institute, Singapore. I presented a talk titled “Omnibus - Serve your dish on all the tables” (slides,...
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Balasankar C: Introduction to Git workshop at CUSAT
Heya,It has been long since I have written somewhere. In the last year I attended some events, like FOSSMeet, DeccanRubyConf, GitLab’s summit and didn’t write anything about it. The truth is, I forgot...
View ArticleBalasankar C: SMC/IndicProject Activities- ToDo List
Heya,So, M.Tech is coming to an end I should probably start searching for a job soon. Still, it seems I will be having a bit of free time from Mid-September. I have got some plans about the areas I...
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Balasankar C: GSoC Final Report
Heya,It is finally the time to wind up the GSoC work on which I have been buried for the past three months. First of all, let me thank Santhosh, Hrishi and Vasudev for their help and support. I seem to...
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Balasankar C: 4 Days. 22 Hours. LaTeX.
Heya folks,One of the stuff I love doing is teaching what I know to others. Though it is a Cliché dialogue, I know from experience that when we teach others our knowledge expands. From 10 students, you...
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Balasankar C: Kerala State IT Policy - A Stakeholder Consultation
Heya folks,Last Saturday, that is 16th July, I attendeda a meeting regarding the upcoming Kerala State IT Policy. It was a stakeholder consultation organized by DAKF, Software Freedom Law Centre and...
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