Typing Indian Languages on Mac OS X

I have come across a few questions on the forums here asking for Phonetic Transliteration using schemes such as Baraha for different Indian Languages on Mac OS X. Unfortunately, no good answers were given (probably none existed) and the forums are now archived. Having lived through the dark days of trying to use various non-phonetic QWERTY keyboards, I decided to write my own open-source Input Method Engine (IME) called LipikaIME: https://github.com/ratreya/Lipika_IME.
LipikaIME supports Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu scripts using ITRANS, Baraha, Harvard-Kyoto, Barahavat and Ksharanam transliteration schemes. Mappings are documented here: https://github.com/ratreya/Lipika_IME/wiki. Additionally, you can add your own language or transliteration scheme using LipikaIME's configuration files. You can also use GoogleIME's SCM file format (http://www.google.com/inputtools/windows/canonical.html) to introduce your own transliteration scheme.
LipikaIME works on Mac OS X 10.8 and above. You can download the installer here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/sanskrit/LipikaIME.pkg. This application is not in the Mac AppStore because custom installers, which are required to get any IME to work on OS X, are disallowed - some day I may think of a way to work around this.
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Thanks for posting this extremely useful info.  I have put an article on my blog about it too:
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2014/05/new-input-methods-for-indic-scripts.html

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