Guest guest Posted August 8, 2003 Report Share Posted August 8, 2003 Publications by Prof. Ken Keniston (Director, MIT-India) talk about the challenges of language localization in computers (in html and pdf): http://www.mit.edu/people/kken/FILES/pubs.htm Since 1990s, Tamil has come a long way in the computers and the web. With printing, typewriters, and fonts first achieved for Tamil among other Indian languages, and Ponvizhi OCR working well, its script with non-conjuncts has helped a lot. In fact, Tamil is the only Indic language with an 8-bit encoding possible, thanks to its short set of characters and many e-groups run on the TSCII bilingual encoding in the net from 1997-8, foundations for which started at www.tamil.net in early 90s. Now there are using Unicode Tamil, and blogs (called valaiccuvaDu) in unicode. A monthly e-zine on Tamil Unicode. http://www.thisaigal.com Hopefully Tamil Inaiyam 2003 at Chennai and other forces will make a shift of popular magazines to Unicode. Introductory articles by Tiru. Muthu Nedumaran about Tamil Unicode, http://www.thisaigal.com/Muthu.htm http://www.thisaigal.com/may03/UNICOartmuthu.html (Use pc, windows 2000 or xp, IE browser for reading) Best wishes for TI 2003 at Chennai, N. Ganesan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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