Some days ago, I came across Malayalam numerals and found it very interesting. Unlike Hindi or Kannada numerals, the numerical grammar of Malayalam was unique. It’s a direct fork of the Tamil numeric system. So, Tamil & Malayalam has this unique numeral system. It is no longer commonly used though. Like the rest of the world, we use Hindu-Arabic numeral system now.

I had to include my phone number in a webpage recently for an event hosting and was concerned whether spammers would take hold of it with their fancy phone-number mining scripts. An idea to prevent this and still give the phone number was to write it in Malayalam numerals. The event was related to Malayalam, so some people would recognize it. Besides, if there were people who really really wanted to reach via phone, they’d go through the trouble to read the numerals eh ? 😉 :D (psst, see my contact page)

This is certainly not an April Fool and doesn’t involve a rickroll. :P 😝

Introducing Indic-En, a browser extension to convert websites in Indian languages (Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada) to Manglish, Hinglish & Kanglish. This is the first WebExtension that I’ve made.

This extension will be useful for people who can understand the language, but can’t read it (read the script). I’ve also made a similar Android app “Manglish” which does this, but only for the Malayalam language. Special shoutout to r/Kerala folks who support and help spread the word around of Manglish app. Thanks to all the folks who have donated and spread the word about Manglish app. I’m happy that it’s helping people ❤️. As a Free software indie developer, marketing is a difficult thing to do. Please spread the word around :)

About

Lately, I’ve been volunteering for Swathanthra Malayalam Project (SMC). I took up the initiative in revamping KDE localization which was dorminant for many years. More about how, why I started this is in this Twitter thread. We were successful in pushing new Malayalam localization to the wide range of KDE products.

November 1 is the birthday of Kerala state of India. Kerala was formed on the basis of the language spoken, Malayalam. Being November, Infokairali magazine decided to roll this edition with the theme “Digital Malayalam”. Infokairali is the only tech magazine in Malayalam.

Today, I’m introducing Varnam Editor, an easy software for you to write Malayalam and other Indian languages. It is easily installable for GNU/Linux distros like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Archlinux etc.

Technically, it’s an editor for transliterating Indian languages. Varnam Editor uses an existing library called Varnam and makes it easy to install & use.

Transliteration

From Wikipedia :

Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus trans- + liter-) in predictable ways (such as α → a, д → d, χ → ch, ն → n or æ → ae).

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I’m happy to announce a new Android app called “Manglish”, it’s an app to convert Malayalam text to Manglish. It’s a GNU GPL v3 licensed completely free software app with no ads thanks to the donors. Kept it as light as possible.

You can download & install it in many ways :

Updates

• 2021 May: Version 7 released with new On Screen Button feature.

• 2020 August: App has reached 5000 active installs.

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Instagram allows you to livestream from the phone only. And that too from the camera which means you can’t add extra effects, overlays or cool stuff like that.

If you could livestream from the computer, you can customize the livestream video as you like. Similar to livestreams on YouTube or Twitch.

I was bored and was thinking of cool projects to do. I just got into Instagram and was checking it out. Livestream was pretty cool ! So I searched for livestream from desktop and found this. It worked, but didn’t have some features I needed and it isn’t easy for a normal user to use (cause everything was in the terminal).s

I mentioned about me working with the FOSS club of my college in a recent post. Well, we’re getting more active ! On Software Freedom Day 2018, we did an OpenStreetMap mapathon.

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Unlike Google Maps, OSM is completely open source. Its data can be accessed and used by anyone. Because of this, many softwares and organizations use OSM. Examples would be Pokemon Go, Facebook and many others.

It’s been some time since I have been active on this blog. For the past months, I had been paying little attention to my blog. It’s because I was busy with other projects and school of course.

From now on, I’ll try to make the blog more active. As a first step, I have updated the theme. This is the third update to the theme.

The previous themes were named “Subin’s Blog V1” & “Subin’s Blog V2”. That’s a pretty boring name. So I went to a random name picker website and chose one – “Brenton”.

HTML5 is the newest HTML version and it has tons of new features. New input types, output & input (audio, video) and many more. It is now absolutely necessary for projects to move to HTML5 to enjoy new features.

Drupal is also converting to HTML5 in the upcoming stable 8.0 release. Drupal has started the HTML5 Initiative to convert Drupal to HTML5. Now, this will upgrade Drupal into new heights.

HTML5

This post contains information regarding the Drupal Core issue. This post will explain how the bug was reproduced and how the test patch was created.

The bug was “Wrong message displayed after contact form mail(s) cannot be sent”.

Requires

• Drupal 8.0
• Contact Module

Note that URLs mentioned in this post “http://mydrupalsite.com/" is the URL of your Drupal installation and “/mydrupalsite” is the folder location of Drupal installation.

Reproducing Bug

1. First of all we need to make a contact form page. Go to the Contact Module configuration page :

http://mydrupalsite.com/admin/structure/contact

Click on “Add Contact Form” button and in the new window that you go to, fill up the form with the asked information. Example :