--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@...>

wrote:

> > --- i18n <i18n@...> wrote: > suzmccarth wrote:
> > I can envisage two types of IMEs for Tamil based on
> > what I've been reading here.
> >
> > 1) Thai-style which takes maps a character to a key,
> > and just rearranges character sequences when the user
> > types vowels in the wrong order, and prevents invalid
> > sequences. But does not offer a conversion list.
> ...
> > Number 1 exists for Thai but doesn't ship with Windows
> > because most people don't seem to need it. The
> > programmer needs to know what rearranging needs to
> > happen in *all* cases, and what combinations are and
> > are not legal combinations.
>
> Thai comes with Windows XP home Edition as standard. Its use does,
> however, have to be explicitly enabled from an 'administrator'
> account. It also came with the version of Linux I have, at least

in

> some packages.

Correction:

Please ignore this comment. I hadn't realised what was meant by the
correction, and confused the comment with the fact that Thai input is
in visual order.

The suggestion of using Thai for Tamil stands, though of course it is
no use for interacting with Tamil written using the Unicode Tamil
scripts.

Richard.