[புதன், பிப்ரவரி 16 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote:

Hi Eli,

>> As a native Tamil speaker, I can attest that contemporary text uses the
>> Arabic numerals (in fact, Tamil digits are mentioned as a matter of fact
>> in schools).  I'm not sure about the situation in Sri Lanka, tho.
>
> It sounds like a better way forward would be to define a separate
> input method, so that the existing input method is preserved and can
> be used if someone wants the current transliterations.
>
> So my suggestions would be:
>
>  1. For your items 1 and 3, just copy indian-tml-base-table to a new
>     variable, modify it to include the two missing characters and
>     replace the digits with nil, add a new variable similar to
>     indian-tml-itrans-v5-hash, and compute its value like we do with
>     indian-tml-itrans-v5-hash, but using the new table instead of
>     indian-tml-base-table.  Then make a new input method, called, say,
>     tamil-itrans-alt, which would use the new hash variable instead of
>     indian-tml-itrans-v5-hash.  Submit these changes as patches to
>     lisp/language/ind-util.el and lisp/leim/quail/indian.el.
>

Does the attached patch look okay to you?