Attention : Indic communities using Narayam extension. Other Indic communities which don't have Narayam please do read below, I have a note for you too

As of now Malayalam,Tamil,Odiya,Sanskrit,Assamese,Sinhala communities use Narayam. Narayam is also deployed on Commons. Most of the communities had got the extension few months back, but there have been consistent improvements / bug fixes. Looks like people are not aware of those changes and started asking Shiju where can they know more.I am writing on 2 major things that was done to Narayam recently because of the bugs we(Tamil community) filed and fixes for them had caused an overall impact.

Shortcut key on Mac :- Refer bug[1] for details, in summary the shortcut key is now dynamic based on browser / OS combination so that the shortcut works. Control+G is new shortcut on Mac largely. This was done during Hackathon. //Surprise surprise, more Indic users on mac :)

Beta maps :- Refer bug[2] for details, in summary, if you have seen more input methods previously and started seeing lesser methods in last couple of days, its probably because of this. We did not want untested keyboard mappings live on WikiProjects. Beta maps will enable people to test newly added maps(bunch of inscript maps were added as part of Hackathon / Translation sprint) to be tested on translatewiki, only after a community member certifies it, it will be seen in wikimedia sites. This was done last week.

There are more bugs reported by others and the software keeps changing, so If you want to follow Narayam in close detail, subscribe to the feed[3].

Some of us know, you push i18n patches every Monday. Can you also give a feed for recent changes in patch *every week*, so we could see if something relevant to us changed in the patch and test so that we may not miss any regression caused and be quick to report issues. I know wikitech wiki has the logs somewhere on deployment(forgot now), but a plain text feed will help and save much time for many folks.

The Javascript solution is not an ideal one now, though it served the purpose when it was built. Narayam is supported better / technically superior and as an extension is fairly stable. Unlike webfonts, Narayam will be deployed only if someone asks for and that should be the way..You can test through http://translatewiki.net report bugs(Ideally narayam shouldn't have bugs since Junaid took the maps which already existed in typing solution), get things fixed, call for community consensus and getting them deployed. I also request Shiju (who keeps interacting with various communities, to give a push on this to Indic wikipedians)