For nearly two decades, the expertise andenthusiasm of this community were reflected asindividual efforts mainly engaged in developmentof fonts and keyboard drivers.
The fast changes in the computing environmentand worldwide proliferation of Internet usagehave widened the base of interest in TamilComputing and Internet applications.
In thisevolution, the first Tamilnet'97 Conference in Singaporeidentified the key issues and outlined the scopefor further intensive efforts. The secondConference, Tamilnet'99 held in Chennai providedthe basis for evolving common schemes for Tamilfont encoding and Tamil keyboardconfiguration. Since then, there has been a sharp increase inhe level of activities in development of productsand initiating efforts in new directionsresponding to the rapid advances in informationtechnology.
This paperpresents an overview of the efforts in TamilNadu. Introduction Since the early eighties, when personalcomputers became available extensively, a numberof persons with deep interest in Tamil begandevelopment of Tamil fonts for use in thecomputers. Individual font developersassigned different code positions to differentcharacters and modifiers.
Since most of these initial developments werein English speaking countries with easier accessto personal computers than India, many chose toadopt Romanised Keyboards, with some smallvariations in using the QWERTY keys for someTamil fonts. There were also developments ofTamil keyboard configurations, either resemblinglargely the Remington Tamil Typewriter or withconfigurations of individual taste andreasoning.
The Singapore Tamilnet 97 Conferenceorganized by Dr. Naa Govindasamyhighlighted these variations and the consequenthandicaps in promoting use of Tamil in computersand in effective penetration of Tamil inInternet. At the same time Dr. It also recommended a phonetic keyboard layout. Theconference drew attention to the variousimportant and urgent efforts required to beundertaken.
Convergence in FontEncoding Most, if not all, of the Font Developers aresince converging towards one of the followingencoding schemes:. The user community is getting accustomedto the products based on one or the other schemedetermined by their convenience for exchange ofdocuments, e-mail communication, operatingenvironments and ease of availability andsupport.
In Tamil Nadu all of these schemes arein use. There are also a few, mainly some Tamilnewspapers on the Internet, who continue to usefontsoutside these schemes either due to inertiaor backend compatibility. The Romanized keyboard is mostlyakin to Anjal sequence. Some variations in thisneed to be resolved. It is very convenient forthose familiar with the English language. The Tamil 99 keyboard does not requirethe use of shift key except for Granthacharacters.
Since one needs to remember onlyabout half the key positions as compared to othersystems, the new learners are attracted to this. The availability of bilingual keyboards based onTamil 99 configuration facilitates its widespreaduse. The automatic - pulli - is an add-onconvenience. The typewriter keyboard is used by personsaccustomed to the Remington Tamil Typewriters. The Government of Tamil Nadu has also recommendeda common configuration for the typewriter keyboard configuration forcomputers.
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