Re: Minutes of ILUGC Meet, 15th July 2000

[M K Saravanan <mksarav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Suraj.co.in wrote:

>  ASCII which is designed for Supporting the English (26_uppercase +
>  26_Lowercase + 75_other_stuff + 127_Extended_Characters) can barely
>  accommodate the Indian Language Character sets. For instance tamil has
>  over 260 characters. 

Tamil has 247 characters. Commonly used Grantha characters are also
included in the Tamil character set. This will add another 66 which will
result in a total of 313 characters (excluding the Tamil Numerals, Special
tamil characters to represent month, year, etc.., )


>  like Glyphs, Kerning. A lot of humor was seen in his speech. The TAB
>  / TAM standards by the govt. were discussed. The  present Unicode is



It's by TN Govt.  TAB = Tamil Bilingual glyph encoding standard.
TAM = Tamil Monolingual Glyph Encoding standard.




>   1. obtain the "Akaram" TSCII editor
>    (written by Mr. N.Govindasami).


** error correction ** 

Akaram Tamil Editor is a Tk based simple Tamil text editor that works on
MS Windows, Unix and Mac machines.  It is written by Mr. Nagarajan
Chinnasamy <nagu@xxxxxxxx>



** mks **


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