suzmccarth wrote:

> http://www.jaffnalibrary.com/tools/
>
> This site uses a transliteration system. 'Insert your phrase in
> plain English' means use the English alphabet. Then the Tamil
> appears in the other box, if you have the unicode Tamil font
> installed. So you can see the display of the English alphabet as
> you type and the Tamil happens in the other box with all the
> reshaping, reordering and ligatures. Once you know the rules it
> really works.

Gulp! This is NOT what you had in mind when you talked abut a Tamil
"syllabic" input, is it? Else, it would probably be most the Euro-centric
thing I've seen in years...

Would you be happy if someone proposed you to enter English by typing Arabic
characters on the upper box and having English automatically "happening in
the other box with all that barbaric clumsy spelling of yours"?

Would you really be happy if the only way to write the above sentence on a
computer was typing it in a stranger script, like this:

وود يو بي حابي إيف ساموان بروبوزد يو تو انتر إينجليش باي تايبينج ارابيك
كاراكترز ان ذ ابر بوكس اند حافينج إينجليش اوتوماتيكالي "حابنينج إين ذ اذر
بوكس ويذ ال ذات بارباريك كلامسي سبلينج اف يوارز"؟

_ Marco