Tamil keyboard

Keyboard layout

Digraphic Tamil 99 keyboard with the Latin and Tamil scripts

The Tamil keyboard is used in computers and mobile devices to input text in the Tamil script.

The keyboard layout approved by the Government of Tamil Nadu is Tamil 99. The InScript keyboard is the keyboard layout standardized by the Government of India for inputting text in the languages of India written in Brahmic scripts.

Tamil keyboards are often digraphic, combining the Tamil script with the Latin alphabet.

## Tamil input methods

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There are different systems developed to type Tamil language characters using a typewriter or a computer keyboard. Several programs such as Azhagi and NHM writer provide both fixed and phonetic type layouts for typing.

## Phonetic Computer Layouts

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* Google transliteration
* Google Input Method Editors(Google IME)
* Transliteration provided by Azhagi software

## Tamil 99

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Main article: Tamil 99

Tamil 99 is a keyboard layout approved by the Tamil Nadu Government. The layout, along with several monolingual and bilingual fonts for use with the Tamil language, was approved by Government order on 13 June 1999.[1]

Designed for use with a normal QWERTY keyboard, typing follows a consonant-vowel pattern. The arrangement of the characters allow for fast and simple typing for users familiar with the script.

## InScript

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Main article: InScript

InScript (Indian Script) is the standard keyboard for Indian scripts. It is a touch typing keyboard layout for computer. This keyboard layout is standardized by Government of India for inputting text in languages of India written in Brahmic scripts, as well as the Santali language, written in the non-Brahmic Ol Chiki script.[2] It was developed by Indian Government and supported by several public and private organisations. This is the standard keyboard for 12 Indian scripts including Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu etc.

## See also

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* Tamil 99
* தமிழ் 99
* InScript
* Brahmic keyboard layouts
* Keyboard layout
* Tamil (Unicode block)
* Tamil blogosphere
* Tamil All Character Encoding

## References

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1. ^ "Tamil Font Encoding and Keyboard Layout standards of the Tamilnadu Government". Tamil Electronic Library. 2005-11-16. Retrieved 2010-05-17.
2. ^ "TDIL – Inscript Keyboard". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2012-12-19.

## External links

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* http://ildc.in/inscriptlayout.html
* http://tamilelibrary.org/teli/tnstd.html
* http://tamilnation.org/digital/tamilnet99/report.htm

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Character encodings

Early telecommunications|

* Telegraph code
* Needle
* Morse
* Non-Latin
* Wabun/Kana
* Chinese
* Cyrillic
* Baudot and Murray
* Fieldata
* ASCII
* ISO/IEC 646
* BCDIC
* Teletex and Videotex/Teletext
* T.51/ISO/IEC 6937
* ITU T.61
* ITU T.101
* World System Teletext
* background
* sets
* Transcode

ISO/IEC 8859|

* Approved parts
* -1 (Western Europe)
* -2 (Central Europe)
* -3 (Maltese/Esperanto)
* -4 (North Europe)
* -5 (Cyrillic)
* -6 (Arabic)
* -7 (Greek)
* -8 (Hebrew)
* -9 (Turkish)
* -10 (Nordic)
* -11 (Thai)
* -13 (Baltic)
* -14 (Celtic)
* -15 (New Western Europe)
* -16 (Romanian)
* Abandoned parts
* -12 (Devanagari)
* Proposed but not approved
* KOI-8 Cyrillic
* Sámi
* Adaptations
* Welsh
* Estonian
* Ukrainian Cyrillic

Bibliographic use|

* MARC-8
* ANSEL
* CCCII/EACC
* ISO 5426
* 5426-2
* 5427
* 5428
* 6438
* 6862

National standards|

* ArmSCII
* Big5
* BraSCII
* BSCII
* CNS 11643
* DIN 66003
* ELOT 927
* GOST 10859
* GB 2312
* GB 12345
* GB 12052
* GB 18030
* HKSCS
* ISCII
* JIS X 0201
* JIS X 0208
* JIS X 0212
* JIS X 0213
* KOI-7
* KPS 9566
* KS X 1001
* KS X 1002
* LST 1564
* LST 1590-4
* PASCII
* Shift JIS
* SI 960
* TIS-620
* TSCII
* VISCII
* VSCII
* YUSCII

ISO/IEC 2022|

* ISO/IEC 8859
* ISO/IEC 10367
* Extended Unix Code / EUC

Mac OS Code pages
("scripts")|

* Armenian
* Arabic
* Barents Cyrillic
* Celtic
* Central European
* Croatian
* Cyrillic
* Devanagari
* Farsi (Persian)
* Font X (Kermit)
* Gaelic
* Georgian
* Greek
* Gujarati
* Gurmukhi
* Hebrew
* Iceland
* Inuit
* Keyboard
* Latin (Kermit)
* Maltese/Esperanto
* Ogham
* Roman
* Romanian
* Sámi
* Turkish
* Turkic Cyrillic
* Ukrainian
* VT100

DOS code pages|

* 437
* 737
* 850
* 858
* 861
* 862
* 863
* 864
* 865
* 866
* 867
* 868
* 869
* 899
* 904
* 932
* 936
* 942
* 949
* 950
* 951
* 1040
* 1043
* 1046
* 1098
* 1115
* 1116
* 1117
* 1118
* 1127
* ABICOMP
* CS Indic
* CSX Indic
* CSX+ Indic
* CWI-2
* Iran System
* Kamenický
* Mazovia
* MIK

IBM AIX code pages|

* 895
* 896
* 912
* 915
* 921
* 922
* 1006
* 1008
* 1009
* 1010
* 1012
* 1013
* 1014
* 1015
* 1016
* 1017
* 1018
* 1019
* 1046
* 1133

Windows code pages|

* CER-GS
* 932
* 936 (GBK)
* 950
* Extended Latin-8
* 1250
* 1251
* 1252
* 1253
* 1254
* 1255
* 1256
* 1257
* 1258
* 1270
* Cyrillic + French
* Cyrillic + German
* Polytonic Greek

EBCDIC code pages|

* Japanese language in EBCDIC
* DKOI

DEC terminals (VTx)|

* Multinational (MCS)
* National Replacement (NRCS)
* French Canadian
* Swiss
* Spanish
* United Kingdom
* Dutch
* Finnish
* French
* Norwegian and Danish
* Swedish
* Norwegian and Danish (alternative)
* 8-bit Greek
* 8-bit Turkish
* SI 960
* Hebrew
* Special Graphics
* Technical (TCS)

Platform specific|

* 1052
* 1053
* 1054
* 1055
* 1058
* Acorn RISC OS
* Amstrad CPC
* Apple II
* ATASCII
* Atari ST
* BICS
* Casio calculators
* CDC
* Compucolor 8001
* Compucolor II
* CP/M+
* DEC RADIX 50
* DEC MCS/NRCS
* DG International
* Galaksija
* GEM
* GSM 03.38
* HP Roman
* HP FOCAL
* HP RPL
* SQUOZE
* LICS
* LMBCS
* MSX
* NEC APC
* NeXT
* PETSCII
* PostScript Standard
* PostScript Latin 1
* SAM Coupé
* Sega SC-3000
* Sharp calculators
* Sharp MZ
* Sinclair QL
* Teletext
* TI calculators
* TRS-80
* Ventura International
* WISCII
* XCCS
* ZX80
* ZX81
* ZX Spectrum

Unicode / ISO/IEC 10646|

* UTF-1
* UTF-7
* UTF-8
* UTF-16
* UTF-32
* UTF-EBCDIC
* GB 18030
* DIN 91379
* BOCU-1
* CESU-8
* SCSU
* TACE16
* Comparison of Unicode encodings

TeX typesetting system|

* Cork
* LY1
* OML
* OMS
* OT1

Miscellaneous code pages|

* ABICOMP
* ASMO 449
* Digital encoding of APL symbols
* ISO-IR-68
* ARIB STD-B24
* Fieldata
* HZ
* IEC-P27-1
* INIS
* 7-bit
* 8-bit
* ISO-IR-169
* ISO 2033
* KOI
* KOI8-R
* KOI8-RU
* KOI8-U
* Mojikyō
* SEASCII
* Stanford/ITS
* Symbol
* TRON
* Unified Hangul Code

Control character|

* Morse prosigns
* C0 and C1 control codes
* ISO/IEC 6429
* JIS X 0211
* Unicode control, format and separator characters
* Whitespace characters

Related topics|

* CCSID
* Character encodings in HTML
* Charset detection
* Han unification
* Hardware code page
* MICR code
* Mojibake
* Variable-length encoding

Character sets

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Keyboard layouts

Latin script
(list)|

| QWERTY (list)|

* British and American
* Icelandic
* Italian
* Portuguese
* Romanian

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QWERTY-like|

* AZERTY
* QWERTZ
* German
* Albanian
* QZERTY

not QWERTY-like|

* BÉPO
* Colemak
* Dvorak (Svorak)
* EurKEY
* HCESAR
* Maltron
* Neo
* SKY
* Turkish F
* ŪGJRMV
* Workman

Non-Latin
script|

| Brahmic scripts|

* Bengali
* Dzongkha (Tibetan)
* InScript (Indian languages; Hindi, Telugu etc)
* Khmer
* Meitei (Manipuri)
* Sinhala
* Tamil (Tamil 99)

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East Asian scripts|

* Chinese
* Japanese (thumb-shift)
* Korean (Dubeolsik, Sebeolsik)

Other|

* Arabic
* Intellark
* Jawi
* Georgian
* Hebrew
* Russian (pre-reform)
* Russian (post-reform)
* Urdu

For mobile
devices|

| Japanese scripts|

* 2-touch input [ja]
* Nico Touch [ja]

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Physical|

* E.161
* iTap
* LetterWise
* Multi-tap
* T9
* XT9
* SureType
* Telephone (9-key)
* Thumb board

Virtual|

* 5-Tiles
* FITALY
* Fleksy
* Flick input
* Gboard
* Graffiti
* KALQ
* MessagEase
* OpenBoard
* SwiftKey
* ShapeWriter
* Swype
* TouchPal
* Typewise

Chorded
keyboards|

| Two handed|

* Palantype
* Stenotype
* Velotype

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One handed|

* BAT
* CyKey
* FrogPad
* Microwriter

Standards|

* ECMA-23
* ISO/IEC 9995

Historical|

* Blickensderfer (DHIATENSOR)
* Linotype
* PLUM
* Printing Telegraph

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