Re: Thia for Tamil (was: How about a typology for input methods)

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Marco Cimarosti
<marco.cimarosti@...> wrote:

> suzmccarth wrote:
> > Since there have been no other suggestions as to how to input
> > Unicode Tamil,
>
> I don't see any reason to make "suggestions as how to input Unicode

Tamil".

>
> There are only two possible ways of inputting Tamil: "logical order"

and

> "visual order". The former is commonly available on several system,

the

> second one less so, probably because it is less required by Tamil (it
> wouldn't require rocket science to implement it, anyway).

So how do you do visual order? The only method that I can see of doing
it involves dead keys, and even then I'm not sure it would work. The
original problem was that many want to copy what's written from left to
right, rather than recompose the aksharas. (The Thais successfully
resisted logical order.)

Richard.