Groking Varnam - Part 1
I wanted to figure out how varnam works (and even possibly rewrite it in a modern language, for fun). So here are the notes Varnam is an interesting project. It helps you do transliteration. For the chatbot of mithr we wanted to convert some names and addresses to various Indian languages without having to manually “translate”. These are names, after all. So I got interested in Varnam. But then, GSoC is coming and SMC is applying. Varnam would be a really nice project for people to hack on. But the main developer of Varnam is really busy. So, I decided I will read through the code (even try to port it into Rust if possible) and learn how it works.