operating system in Smart phone using phonetics. Figure . eKalappai Opening screen . Tamil Office Automation Applications Famous Office automation software like Microsoft Office, Open Office etc., provides complete Tamil interface facility.
These softwares are downloadable and installed in your computer. After installation, your office automation software environment will completely change to Tamil. Menu bars, names of icons, dialog boxes will be shown in Tamil. Moreover, you can save files with Tamil names and create folders with Tamil names.
Chapter Figure . Libra Office Writer Environments in Tamil Apart from that Tamil Libra Office, Tamil Open Office, Azhagi Unicode Editor, Ponmozhi, Menthamiz, Kamban, Vani are office automation software working exclusively for Tamil. You can use these applications to work completely in Tamil. .
Tamil Translation Applications Thamizpori ( தமிழ்பொறி ) is a Tamil tranlation application having more than 30000 Tamil words equalent to English words. Using this application, we can translate small english sentences into Tamil. Google also gives an online translation facility. .
Tamil Programming Language Programming languages to develop software in computers and smart phones are available only in English. Based on Python programming language, the first Tamil programming language “Ezhil” ( எழில் ) is designed. . Tamil Information Interchange Coding Systems TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange) Computers handle data and information as binary system.
Computers use ASCII encoding system to handle data and information. The ASCII encoding system is applicable only for handling English language. Therefore, TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange) is the first coding system to handle our Tamil language. This encoding scheme was registered in IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) a unit of ICANN.
ISCII (Indian Script Code for Information Interchange) This is one of the encoding schemes specially designed for Indian languages including Tamil. It was unified with Unicode. Unicode: Unicode is an encoding system, designed to handle various world languages, including Tamil. Its first version .
. was introduced in October . Unicode is the best suitable to handle Tamil. .
Tamil Operating System An operating system is needed to access electronic systems such