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Tamil Unicode is one of the computer industry standards for the regular encoding, representation, and help to reveal the Tamil text in the computer system. Tamil Unicode block includes the characters of Tamil languages. The Tamil language is mostly used in India, Sri Lankan, Singapore, and Malaysia.

Tamil word-processing is currently done using a widevariety of Tamil font faces and specialised word-processors. Thefont-encoding scheme in all these tools are very different and so also theinput/output mechanism of operation. This had to many practical difficultiesin accessing Tamil based web pages on the Internet. In this paper we reviewmany of such tools currently used for Tamil word-processing, classifyingthem under a unifying scheme based on the input/output features. This isfollowed by a proposal for standardisation of Tamil word-processing.

Dravidian Languages such as Tamil use non-roman letters asalphabets. Typing of text materials in computers of these Indic languagesrequires use of either specific font-faces and/or word-processing software. Inthis paper, features of some of the most commonly used Tamil font faces andsoftware are reviewed and a possible scheme towards standardization of TamilComputing is also indicated. The term 'Tamil Computing' is used here in a narrowsense to cover the area of word-processing. Tamil Computing covers a muchbroader domain with applications in many areas: tools for larger databases ofdifferent kinds using Tamil script, multimedia kits for learning Tamil,multi-lingual dictionaries, translation software etc.

In the last two decades, many different font faces anddesk-top publishing (DTP) software have appeared for word-processing of Tamiland along with them different typing (input) methods. Some of these are based onsimple recasting of the Tamil typewriter keyboard in the form of 7-bit fonts.Others are sophisticated 8-bit font/word-processing packages where the actualkeystrokes and their relative sequence are interpreted to provide the requiredTamil texts. These packages allow different modes of input includingromanized/transliterated input. Font Encoding, i.e., the exact location ofdifferent Tamil characters in the reference standard chart/ASCII table (128 or256 slots) in the Tamil font being used determines the 'output' content of theTamil text irrespective of the mode of 'input'. Tamil text files created usingone font/DTP package cannot be read using another font unless the font encodingscheme is identical between the two fonts in question.

Necessity for setting standards arises from the growing trendto exchange/share information between individuals placed in different parts ofthe world. There is a growing number of Tamil pages being put on theInternet/WWW using fonts and packages with different font encoding schemes. Thishas led to an unpleasant situation: One needs to acquire and install as manyfonts as the number of Tamil web pages to be able to read them on the Internet.In the absence of any standard protocols by which the information storage iscarried out at the font-encoding level, information exchange on a world-widebecome too complex for many of the concerned individuals, if not impossible.Majority of the end-users (Tamil community at large) are not well-versed intechnical aspects of data storage, transfer. So procedures have to be designedso that ordinary/common people can put up web pages and share informationelectronically in Tamil world-wide without getting involved too much into thetechnical nitty-grittys. Any proposals for standardization needs to accommodatethe current typing habits/preferences (some kind of backward compatibility).

By transliterated/romanized Tamil text, we refer toreproducing in a near-close phonetic form, the Tamil texts using romanalphabets. Thus, the Tamil word for father is written as appA (or appaa), motheras 'ammA' (or as ammaa). Transliterated form of reproducing dravidian languagematerials has been popular amongst western indologists for well over a century(pre-modern computer Era). Even standards were discussed and adopted in aninternational conference as early as 1888. The earliest and widely usedtransliteration scheme is what is known as LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TRANSLITERATIONSCHEME. This uses roman alphabets with diacritics (horizontal bars or circlesadded above or below roman alphabets) to represent alphabets of indianlanguages.

Figure 1 shows pictorially this and othertransliteration schemes for Tamil discussed in this paper. Diacritical markersadded to a letter or symbol show its pronunciation, accent, etc., typicallyindicating that a phonetic value is different from the unmarked state. Thescheme is very general in scope and hence can be used in almost all worldlanguages. Established Tamil research centres all around the world are aware ofthis scheme and most of them implement this scheme as such withoutmodifications. In Chennai, Institute of Asian Studies (engaged in publishingmany of the Tamil literature related research) and Roja Muthaiah Tamil ResearchLibrary [1] with links to Univ. of Chicago (involved in electronic cataloguingof 50000+ precious Tamil books collections) are examples of institutions thatfollow this scheme.

Given the practical constraints on the scope of present dayelectronic communications (largely 7-bit) alternate TRANSLITERATION SCHEMESBASED ON PLAIN ASCII CHARACTERS have also been in use widely.Figure 1 also includes some of the commonly used transliteration schemes of thiskind. Plain ASCII scheme was considered in the early pre-computer era but wasabandoned as being non-practical.

In the last two decades with the growing use of computers,there is an increasing number of individuals and institutions that employ someform of a 'transliteration scheme' based on plain ASCII roman characters.Presently most of the postings on the USENET Newsgroups of Internet such assoc.culture.Tamil quote Tamil texts in the form of romanized text, for displayon plain ASCII terminals. MADURAI software [2] uses a code to construct Tamilalphabets on screen in four lines using ASCII letters.

Though it is not "print quality" it allows to convey themessage in quasi-Tamil script. The classic 10-volume reference work "TamilLexicon" published by the Univ. of Madras during 1929-1939 used thetransliteration scheme based on plain ASCII. The Institute of Indology and TamilStudies of Univ. of Cologne (Kln) [3] uses this scheme for the cataloguing oftheir 50000+ Tamil books collections and also for their extensive collection ofelectronic texts of ancient Tamil classics (e.g., Sangam Literature).

As stated earlier, writing in the LC form of transliteratedTamil on Computers requires special fonts that contain roman letters with thediacritics. Library of Congress (LC) and major Tamil libraries in the USA andEurope allow on-line search of their catalogues from anywhere in the world. Inorder that searches can be made using simple ('dumb') terminals, on-linecatalogues allow search using plain ASCII characters without the correspondingdiacritical markers. Thus, one has to use keyword 'anil' for squirrel whilesearching LC or Univ. of California, Berkeley. But, at the IITS library of Univ.of Kln where the indexing is on alternate transliteration scheme (based onplain ASCII), the search would be as 'aNiL' ! Thus, here we have an anomaloussituation where care has been taken to catalogue books using a special font (notreadily available) but all its features are lost while doing search using plainASCII characters. There is also the practical problem that one has to firsteducate oneself as to which form of transliteration scheme used at the place ofsearch.

In view of the above points, it is essential that, someconsensus be reached on a universally adopted transliteration scheme. As will bediscussed below, there are now DTP software that allow 'input' in romanized textformat. Here also it would be better if some standard form of transliterationscheme is universally adopted. Our preferences are for a scheme such as thatused in Adhawin/Madurai, one that allow writing in near phonetically equivalentform but using plain ASCII characters.

Tamil typewriters have been in use for many years before theadvent of computers. So it is logical that early approaches to Tamil computinginvolved implementing the classical typewriter in the form of 7-bit fonts.Various Tamil characters are placed under different roman letters at theequivalent locations of the Tamil typewriter. All of the Tamil alphabets areobtained by using the normal and shift-mode operation of the standard keyboard.While some of the alphabets are obtained in single keystroke, others areobtained by two or three keystroke operations. With such Tamil fonts, those whoare accustomed to typing on Tamil typewriter can make the transition to Tamilcomputing without difficulty and loss of any typing speed. This trend is verystrong in Tamilnadu even today. Majority of Tamil computing use the Tamiltypewriter keyboard layout(s). So any Tamil Computing Standardisation effortsneed to take this reality into account. There are many font faces of this typeavailable: TAMILLASER of Prof.George Hart, ANANKU [4] of P.Kuppuswamy (widelyused in continental US), SARASWATHI of Vijayakumar (widely used in Canada) aresome examples. BHARATHI word processor for plain DOS computers was one of theearly ones to appear (in early eighties) in Malaysia and Singapore region. VENUSis a recent, updated version of this word-processor running under Windowsenvironment.

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