On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Diwakar Ranganathan wrote:

 |hi kingsley, i prefer a tamil font encoding called TAM (Tamil
 |Monolingual), which is TN govt-approved and also bugless, so, that's the
 |future. the other encodings are very buggy and unicode is out of the

TN govt. approved doesn't mean a thing! unicode is the only standard as of
today!

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/tamil8.html
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/tamil/
ftp://clr.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/indian/


 |question since it's based on devanagri script. there's a lot of politics
 |about tamil font encoding... so the only chance i have seems to be text,
 |or html which is fine with me. but i wanted to make sure that this faq
 |gets hosted in linuxdoc.org.

forget all that .... check this site out.... http://www.tamillinux.org/

They even have ...
 kde-i18n-Tamil-2.0.20010101-1-noarch.rpm locales-ta-2.3-10mdk-noarch.rpm 

really good work I must say.

My mom would love this coz she is forced to 'write' letters in tamil !

Kingsly

                .:: Kingsly John                ICQ 14787510 ::.
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            .:: Linux 2.4.3 #10 Mon Apr 23 22:43:11 IST 2001 i686 ::.
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