Manglish Vs Malayalam Typing - Phonetic Vs Inscript Keyboard

Are you good at transliteration? Good. Continue in Manglish phonetic method if you -

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1. have very good speed at it.
2. can remember all sorts of key combinations to get proper letters
3. love the phonetic method of typing
4. are reluctant to study an extra keyboard layout
5. are not good at activating Malayalam in Windows
6. are not good at writing Malayalam
7. love to follow the crowd

But, if you are a beginner, it is better to study In-script method, because

1. It is the future
2. It is faster
3. It is more web-friendly
4. Type Malayalam directly the way you write Malayalam (Copy-paste not necessary)
5. It has lesser keystrokes
6. It renders chillaksharams and all sorts of koottaksharams better.
7. It has lesser key-combinations to be remembered
8. The layout has been standardized with uniformity for all Indian languages.
9. If you learn to type in any one Indian language you can type many other Indian languages.
10. Activation of the language in Windows is just once-in-a-life- time process.
11. On-line In-script  typing web-sites are available.
12. Type in Notepad and save file as UTF-8
13. Type directly into MS Office (Word, Excel, Power-point etc), Open Office, Graphics (Input text in MS Paint, Paint.NET etc), Web pages, E-mail, Chat, Blog pages etc etc.

Why In-script has not gained much popularity.

1. Popularity of transliteration typing.
2. Lack of awareness about In-script
3. Non-availability in the Operating System by default
4. Unwillingness to learn another keyboard layout
5. Fear of losing speed on changeover.
6. Un-familiarity with Malayalam script (NRIs & Foreign Malayalees)

	Transliteration	In-script Keyboard
Learning	Not required	Nesessary
Softwares	Transliteration, Fonts	Winscript (Windows INdian SCRIPT), Fonts
Keyboard	Qwerty	Bi-lingual
Layout Learning	Known	Needs labeling & learning
Knowledge of the language	Only spoken need to be known	Written script needs to be known
Typing	Phonetic Method	Direct typing
Technique	Transliteration Conversion may be necessary Copy and Paste necessary	Direct typing like writing Conversion not necessary Copy and Paste not necessary
Eg:	Type M a l a y a l a m to get മലയാളം	Type മ ല യ ാ ള ം to get മലയാളം
Web friendly	Not Bad	Good
Key strokes	More	Less
Eg:	See above – 8 to get മലയാളം	See above – 6 to get മലയാളം
Speed	Qwerty speed	Faster (though slow when learning a new method)
Key combination	Complicated	Simple
Spelling Mistakes	More	Less
Letter Rendering	Fair	Very good
Fonts	Not much choice	Many choices
Samvrithokaram	Not clear Eg: ത് ല് ന് ള്	Clear തു് ലു് നു് ളു്
Koottaksharam	Not clear Eg: ക് ത	Clear Eg: ക്ത
Chillaksharam	Not clear ന് ല് ള് ണ് ര് ക്	Clear ന്‍ ല്‍ ല്‍ ണ്‍ ര്‍ ക്‍
Digits	Nil	൧൨൩൪൫൬൭൮൯0
Help
On-line training
Virtual Keyboard
On-Screen Keyboard
Public Awareness	More	Less
Interest	More	Less
Users and usefulness	Chatting	Web, Engineers, Media, Students, Teachers, Lawyers, Writers,
Un-interested people	Nil	Computer salesmen

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