SMC Monthly Report: September 2024
EventsSMC WebsiteSMC new website launched in Bengaluru. Riya Sabu volunteered to initiate the new website,
The Magisk module for Malayalam fonts in the Magisk manager is updated to version 2.0. This update enables the use of popular SMC Malayalam fonts like Manjari, Gayathri, Rachana and Meera in Android. The v2.0 update brings support to Magisk v18 and above. The updated module zip can be downloaded from here. A tutorial on how to install Malayalam fonts on Android using Magisk can be found here. Full list of available fonts and the source code are all available at SMC Gitlab repo.
The next version of the distribution-independent system installer - Calamares will have Malayalam as an optional language for the interface. Localization of Calamares is actively going through Transifex. As of now, more than 70% of the translation is completed. The welcome note for Malayalam localization by the developer can be read here.
Version 1.0.7 of Malayalam Morphological Analyzer - mlmorph is released. The package can be installed using pip for Python.
pip install mlmorph
Use pip3 if Python 2 is the default Python. The web interface of mlmorph is available at https://morph.smc.org.in/ and source code is available at the SMC Gitlab repo.