Tamil input methods
விக்கிபீடியாவிடமிருந்து விடுதலை மனப்பாங்கொடு உருவான கலைக்களஞ்சியம்.
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Windows
eKalappai
eKalappai is a software which can be used to easily type in tamil, in any application running on Microsoft® Windows™. This is not an open source application. eKalappai has it's own Unicode engine and doesn't require underlying operating system support to work. It was created using a software called Keyman™ by Tavultesoft® and is freely obtainable/distributable, for all uses (including commercial uses).
You can download the latest beta(testing) releases from the links below...
Note: All packages contain 3 GPL Tamil Unicode fonts.
You can contact mugunth[at]thamizha[dot]com (Muguntharaj) for more information regarding this project.
You can find more documentation at eKalappai Tamil documentation
GNU/Linux
SCIM
SCIM is an IME (Input Method Engine) for GNU/Linux. It allows input of Tamil (and other CTL-Complex Text Layout languages... eg:- Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Sinahala, etc.) using a standard English keyboard. Different keyboard layouts, such as Phonetic and Inscript are available.
We need to make available (develop) the following four keyboard layouts which are very popular:
- Anjal keyboard -> Its basically a transliteration keyboard - This seems to be the most popular keyboards used by most people who know only english keyboards. (For SCIM Mauran has already created this layout -- Mugunth)
- tamilnet99 -> The tamil Nadu govt approved computer keyboard for Tamil - its quite fast to type tamil with this ( i find this more effective than Anjal -- Mugunth )
- Bamini keyboard ->
(I presume this is popular among the Srilankan Tamils. - Mugunth
I agree as it is freely available online. My வள்ளுவன் layout is "based" on the puthuvai layout avaiable at the jaffnalibrary website. I said "based" becos this layout is quite differnt, when you use it you might notice the difference - Saru). - New Tamil Typewriter keyboard -> this is popular among the Tamil Nadu tamils who have learned Tamil Typewriting.
- Sarangan's SCIM tables
... and package them in various formats (RPM, DEB, TGZ, etc.) for different GNU/Linux distributions.
You can contact...
- mugunth[at]thamizha[dot]com (Muguntharaj)
- mmauran[at]gmail[dot]com (Mauran)
- skhome[at]gmail[dot]com (Sethuramalingam)
- arunan[at]thamizha[dot]com (Arunan)
- sarangan[dot]thuraisingham[at]gmail[dot]com (Sarangan)
... for more information regarding this project.
