Mozhi 2

Introduction

The spec has been updated from its version 1 to include newly encoded characters, handling of chandrakkala, use of joiners, shift-less input etc. In this, we are trying to hit a sweet spot with following objectives:

• 1. Naturalness - being close to transliteration traditions of Malayalees; example: 'th' for ത.

  2. Consistency - same sequence for same phenomena, for example, 'h' is used to indicate aspirated consonants.

  3. Economical about keystrokes

  4. Type without pressing shift key

A simple case study looking at the relationship between these parameters and the corresponding keystroke economy.

This spec is adopted by following applications / input methods:

• Mozhi Malayalam Keyman

• Google Input Tools (Chrome extension): മലയാളം (ഫൊണെറ്റിക്)

Rule-set that can implement the spec described below is available in this spreadsheet. Test cases for any implementation of Mozhi 2 are also listed there.

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