Typing chillaksharam in Malayalam key board

How do we type chillaksharam like "in" "il" "iL" "ir" in Malayalam keyboard. The standard way of typing does not produce these letters.

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Posted on Aug 28, 2023 10:27 PM

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Aug 29, 2023 04:39 AM in response to svramani

Tom Gewecke

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Aug 29, 2023 02:40 AM in response to svramani

svramani wrote:

How do we type chillaksharam like "in" "il" "iL" "ir" in Malayalam keyboard. The standard way of typing does not produce these letters.

Have you tried pressing and holding the key? There should be a popup menu that appears where you can choose the character you want.

Post a picture of what you need and I will double check.

Tom Gewecke

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Jan 7, 2024 05:01 AM in response to svramani

Apple also provides a Malayalam transliteration keyboard, where you just type the Latin characters and choose what you want, as below

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