kalyan | April 20, 2008
Based on the recommendations of TamilNet 99, the Government of Tamil Nadu released a Government Order, adopting the Tamil Keyboard Standard and Glyph Encoding System in a function held on 13th June 1999. The Chief Minister, the Education Minister, Mr. Murasolimaran, Chairman of Reception Committee of TamilNet 99 and several ministers, officials and dignitaries were [...]
kalyan | April 20, 2008
At the end of the International Conference “TAMILNET 99″ held in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India during Feb. 7 and 8, 1999, Tamilnadu Government announced two bilingual font encoding schemes (TAB and TAM) and a keyboard layout as standards for Tamil computing. Here is a report of the Tamilnet99 conference on the announcement of these standards. In [...]
kalyan | April 20, 2008
Tamil script Code for Information Interchange (TSCII) and other 8-bit Coded Bilingual Character Sets of ISO /IEC /ECMA Introduction In Character set standards, various slot positions (bit combinations) of the set are divided into different zones with specific features /restrictions. The specifications of the characters of the 8-bit code are as follows: C0 set containing [...]
kalyan | April 20, 2008
Here is an interesting historical overview I found on the Net, covering the development of font encoding standards, starting from Morse, Teleprinter codes (4/5 bit), through 6-7-8 bit encodings, all the way to 16-bit multilingual Unicode. Source: http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/linguistic-corpora/chapter4.htm This chapter first briefly reviews the history of character encoding. Following from this is a discussion of [...]
kalyan | April 20, 2008
An Overview of Different Tools for Word Processing and a Proposal towards Standardisation (part 2 of 2) by Dr.K. Kalyanasundaram Institute of Physical Chemistry, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland (Invited Paper to be presented at the “International Symposium for Tamil Information Processing and Resources on the Internet, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, [...]
kalyan | April 19, 2008
The following is a short collection of computer-related words in Tamil. The tamil words are in romanized/transliterated format. (hopefully next year when we all have a font encoding standard, the tamil words will be in tamil!) The following transliteration scheme (Adami/Madurai) is used: vowels: a, A/aa, i, I/ee, u, U/oo, e, E, ai, o, O, [...]
kalyan | April 9, 2008
The following is a DRAFT of a proposal for comments by the internet tamil community. Early in 1998, this draft will be finalised and the proposal presented to the Tamilnadu Computer Standardisation Committee (TNC) for possible adoption as a Standard. A Proposal for A Tamil Standard Code For Information Interchange(TSCII) Tamil is one of the [...]
kalyan | April 7, 2008
Tamil BharateeyaOO – Open Office localised Tamil version for use in Windows, Linux OS Description software distributed free by the Govt of india IT ministry kalyan
kalyan | April 7, 2008
An Overview of Different Tools for Word Processing of Tamil and a Proposal towards standardisation (part 1 of 2) by Dr.K. Kalyanasundaram Institute of Physical Chemistry, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland (Invited Paper to be presented at the “International Symposium for Tamil Information Processing and Resources on the Internet, National Univ. of [...]
kalyan | April 7, 2008
Source: thamizha.com Tamil TuxPaint Tamil TuxPaint 0.9.13 (for Windows) Popular Version: 0.9.13 Tamil Tux Paint is a free drawing program designed for young children (kids ages 3 and up). It has a simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who helps guide children as they use the program. This package installs [...]