Re: [PATCH] Improve Malayalam language transliteration

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: James Thomas <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:19:10 +0530
> 
> The existing Quail ITRANS scheme is incomplete and not applicable to the
> language - does not support some common characters and does not handle
> its quirks like 'chillu's.  Also, the Inscript method has errors and is
> not updated to the latest standard.
> 
> This patch implements the basic sufficient features of the Mozhi
> scheme (the complete scheme is unnecessarily complicated IMO) and
> updates Inscript.  Refer:
> https://malayalam.kerala.gov.in/index.php/InputMethods
> https://sites.google.com/site/cibu/
> 
> Note: If checking on Ubuntu (and maybe Debian) set the font to Noto
> Sans Mono to avoid the problems with the default one.

Thanks.

This is a contribution of a significant size, so we would need a
copyright assignment from you before we could accept it.  Would you be
willing to start a legal paperwork rolling, so that we could accept
this and your future contributions?

> -(if nil
> -    (quail-define-package "malayalam-itrans" "Malayalam" "MlmIT" t 
> "Malayalam ITRANS"))
> -(quail-define-indian-trans-package
> - indian-mlm-itrans-v5-hash "malayalam-itrans" "Malayalam" "MlmIT"
> - "Malayalam transliteration by ITRANS method.")

I'm not sure I understand: does this delete the ITRANS method?  Would
it make sense to leave it, and just add the new one?  And please also
note that lisp/language/indian.el references the malayalam-itrans
method; should that be changed as well?