Malayalam Keyboard for Mac OS X
This is a quick (and dirty?) attempt to implement a Malayalam
keyboard, in Mac OS X
10.3.
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How to install Keyboard Layouts in Mac OS X 10.3 (10.2 too?)
- Malayalam Keyboard specifications used: The Inscript keyboard [pdf] with modifications
proposed by an experts committee [pdf]. (Source: Kerala IT
Mission.)
- The Keyboard layout file I have created: Malayalam.keylayout (Warning: Untested
alpha version. Certain to contain errors and omissions. Update: produces chillus with codepoints 0D7A-0D7F, as per a recent porposal. )
- An icon (not very cute) to go with it, mimicing the Devanagari icon: Malayalam.icns
- Some "keyboard views" are shown below.
And finally, here is a full-screenshot: note the
Malayalam text that was entered into the search box; also note the little icon
on the top menubar. The keyboard viewer is used only for reference (the actual
typing is done directly on the keyboard).