Did you know that when the Govt. of Kerala began using typewriters in 1970s for malayalam, the official character set was well over 900 permutations and combinations of unique letterforms? The simple typewriter could not accomodate this complexity and a state order was issue to conform the usage of certain letters and styles of kootaksharam that was followed from then on. What a loss, but what is the solution?
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