Tuesday, January 10, 2006

An Online Tamil Keyboard to type tamil from anywhere...

I have often found myself unable to write tamil from cyber cafes. Many cybercafes dont have tamil input software installed in their computers. To address this problem i wrote a javascript utility for typping tamil and have hosted in my developer.thamizha.com site.

I have named it as Online Tamil Keyboard. URL for Online Tamil Keyboard : http://developer.thamizha.com/tamilkey.html

As of now I have given option for two keyboard layouts
1. Anjal layout - This is most popular keyboard among tamils who havent learned Tamil typewriter or Tamilnet99 keyboards.

2. Tamilnet99 keyboard layout - This is the keyboard recognised by Tamil Nadu Government. Using this keyboard we can type tamil very fast. I personally use this.

I plan to add Bamini keyboard (which is popular among Srilankan Tamils) and TamilTypewriter layout (which is popular among those who have learned Tamil Typewriter) in future.

And this only works in Firefox browser as of now. I am trying to figure out a way to make it work in Internet Explorer (I would greatly appreciate if any one helped me on this ).

I hope this Online Tamil Keyboard page would be helpful in some way to Tamil users :)

15 comments:

rnatesan said...

thank you mr.mukunth,
spending somuch time and effort.yesterday only i located you.ihave a small problem in unicode tamil - ekalappai i.e unicode is not comming out.english,tsc are ok.if you can guide me well,inthe meantime i am thoroughly going in your blog,interesting.i couldnot locate your mail id.thank you.

Mugunth/முகுந்த் said...

Hi Natesan,
Please email me by giving your windows version and also the url from where u downloaded ekalappai to my id mugunth{at}gmail{pulli}com

Anonymous said...

Hey
Thanks a lot.. I am trying it.. Great job! :)

Anonymous said...

can we type tamil 'sri' letter using tat link?

Unknown said...

nice url mugunth
-gopi

Preetha Balagi said...

i can't type du properly, please help.. but otherwise great job!

Anonymous said...

Hey,thats coolhow to type DHU in your editor?
anywaies...
Did you try the tamilsg editor?

http://www.tamil.sg/

Its main feature is converts whatever you type in MSWORD!!! lolx..

Anonymous said...

Dear Mugunth,

this is definetly cool. Thanks for posting tamil.sg link!

Anonymous said...

Thanks Mr.Mugunth for pointing out the Tamil.sg Website, I'm a Tamil Teacher in Singapore, and I use tamilsg editor, Right now I don't have a layout for the website. Please Kindly provide me with it.

NanRi

Anonymous said...

Did you try the w3Tamil99 Keyboard.
http://wk.w3tamil.com

Anonymous said...

Check out http://www.2keystrokes.com/

Literally all languages in the world. Cross browser compatible.

chinathambi said...

Nice post, thankyou very much...

http://chinathambi.blogspot.com

PeriyaCheyal said...

There's an tamil.sg romanized keyboard layout posted at facebook! If you need it please search facebook.com

Anonymous said...

தமிழ் பேச எழுத தெரியாது என்பது இன்றைய சமுதாயத்தின் ஒரு தகுதியாக கருதப்படுகின்ற இந்த காலத்தில் ... தமிழை தமிழால் எங்கிருந்தும் எழுத ஒரு புதிய உண்மையான தமிழ் வழி, கிளிக்கெழுதி !!! இதை உபயோகிப்பதற்கு தமிழ் தட்டெழுத்துத் தட்டோ ஆங்கிலமோ தெரிந்திருக்க தேவையில்லை. :-)
hi
ur board may working fine under IE9
...
try this : http://kilikeluthy.online.fr

Peter Floyd said...

Are you looking for the perfect keyboard for Android devices? Look no further than Tamil Keyboard! This keyboard offers a variety of languages, fast typing, and Many other features to make your experience on your Android device better. A lot of offshore software outsourcing companies outsource to countries like Philippines and Sri Lanka because these countries have strong engineering talent and are relatively inexpensive. software entwicklung nearshore