From: suzmccarth
Message: 2485
Date: 2004-06-12
> suzmccarth wrote:Now I find that I have indeed been using the keyboard described in
> > > 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
> > the Tamil keyboard that I have always used in the classroomsince I
> > transferred to WIndows XP. Does it have another designationmy
> > besides 'ordinary'? It is indeed the keyboard I referred to in
> > first post - I don't know why everyone is so doubting.layout
>
> It is the Microsoft extension to the Indian standard keyboard
> referred to as "Inscript" (acronym for "INdian SCRIPTs"):http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/InputMethod/indiclayout
>
> http://tdil.mit.gov.in/keyoverlay.htm
>
>duplicates
> The Microsoft extensions basically consists in filling in with
> the keys which were left blank in the standard layout. (Howclever, eh? :-)
>close
> The Inscript standard was issued by the government of India, in
> connection with ISCII, the Indian standard character set. Thelatter was
> also the base for Unicode's Indic blocks.the
>
> > I was a little confused about why I should view the keyboard on
> > internet since the on-screen keyboard in the accessibilityoptions
> > in WinXP is functional in any installed language. [...]systems:
>
> Members of this forum don't know which members run which operating
> a picture on the Internet is something that all computer woulddisplay the
> same way.
>
> _ Marco