In this style, many of Malayalam captchas are too difficult to read, infact only some images are readable ( image_deb406cc_f8419aa5c2a1d891.png, image_7a8d523a_6b8546bbc5dc3608.png, image_d3e539c0_f856b4c90b2ceeeb.png etc are some of the difficult ones). The image - image_5dbc3fc3_0e1a119f02c122b8.png - (ാനിതംബം) using a vowel sign in the beginning of the captcha, which is not common and almost impossible to type in most transliteration keyboards. The word നിതംബം after vowel sign ാ exactly means 'buttocks'. BTW, the word ലിംഗം repeated couple of times in images, which means 'sexual organ'.
In the image - image_b5d2be0d_7223dc2282b35e15.png -, readable part is problematic (last letter is not recognizable). In the readable part, letters appear as ച െവി where two different vowel signs are applied on same letter (typing probably not possible). This may be rendering error, which is very common in many rendering engines. Actual word may be (ചെവി). Same kind of problem happens in image_077ebd23_d890a7083e967d92.png where two vowel symbols appears together. It appears vowel sign ാ used independently to create these captchas which should be avoided.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_alphabet
Praveen
On Sunday 30 March 2014 06:00:53 PM IST, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Yes, Wiktionary is not perfect. People unhappy with it are encouraged to edit. :) Alternatively, if someone produces suitable word lists in 150+ languages from higher quality sources, I'll be happy to use them.
Filip Maljković, 30/03/2014 13:09:
Serbian (sr) in some cases uses a combination of Cyrillic and Latin scripts, which is a bit awkward.
Indeed, the situation of Serbian, Croatian and Serbo-Croatian on Wiktionary is super-confusing. If it's too hard to get consistent output we'll just skip them.
CAPTCHA should be in only one script
True. This is easy to do in PHP with the ICU libraries but I've yet to find a python interface (as with https://github.com/mitsuhiko/babel/issues/89), anyway we'll add a sanitisation of the word lists in a way or another.
Nemo
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