--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Cunningham <andj_c@...> wrote:

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> --- suzmccarth <suzmccarth@...> wrote:
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> >
> > The problem is that keyboading with Uniscribe is
> > quite difficult.
>
> uniscribe and keyboard layout issues are separate.
>
> A number of alternative IMEs have been written for
> Indic languages as an alternative to Microsoft's
> keyboard layout. There are also a number of keyman
> keyboard layouts available for Tamil as well.

And I have tried most of them, MS, keyman, and many more. They do
have different keyboard layouts, that is no big deal, but ultimately
if you can't type in your keystrokes fluently as children can't then
there is still some difficulty which seems to be universal to all
layouts and I assumed that this difficulty resides in Uniscribe. It
is not so hard for an adult who can type CV together and doesn't use
hunt and peck and doesn't make errors. Anyway, after all that, the
reshaping and reordering just doesn't give the immediate feedback
that a child expects. I don't want to argue about this and I am sure
that it will improve but I do have children in the same room
keyboarding Rusian, Chinese and Tamil and we do it cheerfully. But I
do have to support the Tamil and not the others.

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> >
> > I think the Pango stuff is kept up to date (2003 for
> > sure) but I
> > hear that IE displays Unicode Tamil better than
> > mozilla so I still
> > use Windows.
> >
>
> LOL, on Windows XP at least Mozilla Firefox and
> Internet Explorer both use Opentype fonts and
> Uniscribe to render Tamil.

I read that somewhere. However, I did say to ask you. So you don't
need to laugh at me.

Suzanne

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> Andrew
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