Ka Tamil Fonts Keyboard Layout Install Tamil Fonts

This effort assists in enabling people to communicate in their own language.

This keyboard is designed for the Tamil language and based on the Tamil typewriter layout.

The keyboard is designed for users who are familiar with both this layout and the Tamil script, and is intended for use with a normal QWERTY (English) keyboard.

Most computers will automatically download a special font if needed to display this language correctly.

Most of the characters used in Tamil are combinations of consonants and vowels, and these do not appear on the keyboard.

Instead, the appropriate vowel component is typed after the consonant.

For example, the standalone vowel is entered by typing,, but in combination with a consonant, the component ( p key) is usually typed instead, after the consonant, and the consonant-vowel combinant will be displayed.

Pressing Backspace once will delete only the vowel component, so the character displayed on the screen will change back to the consonant, and change again if a different component is typed.

Grantha letters, which are used for typing Sanskrit, appear on the keyboard and are treated as normal consonants.

The majority of characters are typed using a combination of keystrokes.

This means that while two (or more) keystrokes are required to display most consonant-vowel combinants, when you use the arrow keys to move the cursor through the text, only a single keystroke is needed to move past each character.

Moving the cursor to the left of a combinant character and pressing Delete will erase the whole character, but if you move the cursor to the right of a combinant and press Backspace, only the vowel component will be erased.

This is the case whether the vowel component appears to the left or right of, above or below the consonant.

Vowel-consonant combinant characters are entered either by typing a specific key for that combinant or by typing the consonant and vowel components separately.

If vowel components are typed before a consonant, they will not be combined with that consonant.

Because the consonants contain the implicit vowel, to produce a pure consonant it is necessary to add the Pulli mark by typing a semicolon; immediately after the consonant.

However, because this keyboard acts in a similar way to a typewriter, it is possible to type a preceding vowel component followed by a consonant and the Pulli mark, or even a standalone vowel followed by the Pulli mark, producing odd combinations such as or.

In every case, a consonant-Pulli mark combinant behaves the same way as a consonant-vowel combinant when you use the arrow, Backspace and Delete keys.

This character is entered by typing (ShiftUnderscore or ShiftHyphen).

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The Grantha consonants, which are entered with S key combinations, use the same input method.

Ka Tamil Fonts Keyboard Layout Install Tamil Fonts

In order to display every character correctly, we recommend you download and install Tamil fonts.

This keyboard was created by M.

S. Murali. Tavultesoft gratefully acknowledges the contribution made by the author in developing this keyboard and making it freely available for use with Keyman Desktop and KeymanWeb.