https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60327
--- Comment #8 from Viswaprabha <viswapra...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to comment #7) > if UniversalLanguageSelector were re-enabled right now, it is pretty much > exclusive to Wikimedia wikis (Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, etc.). How is this > problem solved or worked around elsewhere on the Internet? That is an interesting question. People have been using various IME methods in Malayalam. Not any particular one is clearly dominant. But a large percentage of Malayalam 'speaking' community has been even avoiding typing in Malayalam script just because of the initial complex efforts required to install and learn an IME. So they would use something nicknamed 'manglish', Malayalam words written using English letters. With the introduction of Narayam a few years back, many such users had turned to start typing in proper Malayalam script. Often, a person will open a blank new wikipedia page, choose the Narayam IME, type in whatever (s)he wanted and copy paste it to the 'other' page. In the end, he would just leave the Wikipedia page without saving it! This same practice would continue just as WM projects threw off Narayam and introduced ULS. So, as you may see, Narayam/ULS was even helping a lot of people to fulfill their non-Wikipedia inputting needs! As for one, I frequently use such temporary Wikipedia pages (in their respective local language versions) for typing (non-frequently) words in Tamil, Devanagari, Telugu, Kannada etc. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
