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
Tamil Associations in United States of America Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America Austin Tamil Sangam Bay area Tamil Sangam Bharathi Kalai Manram, Houston, TX Boston Tamil Association California Tamil Sangam Chicago Tamil Sangam Columbus Tamil Sangam Connecticut Tamil Sangam Greater Atlanta Tamil Sangam Harrisburg Tamil Sangam Hunstville Tamil Sangam Ilankai Tamil Sangam, USA [...]
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
Authors of well known Tamil works of early Sangam Period “akanAnURu” and “puranAnURu” (in Tamil, Unicode/utf-8 format) In the year 1999, during his visit to Singapore, Tamilnadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi gave a literary talk to the Singapore Tamil Community. In this talk of 6 Jan ’99, he gave an extended the list of authors [...]
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 19, 2008
In a Hindu arranged marriage there are various rituals and customs. The day before the actual marriage, there is vratham, pallikai telliccal, jaanvasam and niciya taartam. The marriage day starts with mangla snanam, kaasi yatirai, maalai maatral (exchange of garlands), oonjal and the key event kanyadaanam/ muhuurtam. Onjal rite is believed to prevent evil forces [...]
kalyan | April 19, 2008
தமிழ்ப் பழமொழிகள் 1. அகத்தின் அழகு முகத்திலே. 2. அடி உதவுவதுபோல் அண்ணன் தம்பி உதவுவார்களா ? 3. அமாவாசைச்சோறு என்றைக்கும் அகப்படுமா? 4. அரசன் அன்று கொல்லும், தெய்வம் நின்று கொல்லும். 5. அலை மோதும்போதே தலை முழுகு. காற்றுள்ளபோதே தூற்றிக்கொள். 6. அழுதாலும் பிள்ளை அவள்தானே பெறவேண்டும். 7. அளவுக்கு மிஞ்சினால் அமிழ்தமும் நஞ்சு. 8. அணைகடந்த வெள்ளம் அழுதாலும் வராது. 9. அறையில் ஆடியல்லவோ அம்பலத்தில் ஆடவேண்டும். 10. அடிமேல் அடி அடித்தால் [...]