suzmccarth wrote:

> > What I think is missing from this list is an ordinary Tamil
> keyboard such as
> > you can find a description of at
> > http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.aspx
>
>
> I just want to assure you, (now that I have checked)this is indeed
> the Tamil keyboard that I have always used in the classroom since I
> transferred to WIndows XP. Does it have another designation
> besides 'ordinary'? It is indeed the keyboard I referred to in my
> first post - I don't know why everyone is so doubting.

It is the Microsoft extension to the Indian standard keyboard layout
referred to as "Inscript" (acronym for "INdian SCRIPTs"):

http://tdil.mit.gov.in/keyoverlay.htm
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/InputMethod/indiclayout.html

The Microsoft extensions basically consists in filling in with duplicates
the keys which were left blank in the standard layout. (How clever, eh? :-)

The Inscript standard was issued by the government of India, in close
connection with ISCII, the Indian standard character set. The latter was
also the base for Unicode's Indic blocks.

> I was a little confused about why I should view the keyboard on the
> internet since the on-screen keyboard in the accessibility options
> in WinXP is functional in any installed language. [...]

Members of this forum don't know which members run which operating systems:
a picture on the Internet is something that all computer would display the
same way.

_ Marco