Monday, June 27, 2011

Tamil Transliteration Utilities

Tamil is the one of top 20 languages speaking in the world and Most around south Asia. It belongs to Dravidian family and has history of 2000 years. But many of the folks are unaware of Tamil Unicode and its Transliteration facilities. Note me, It is not translation but transliteration. These utilities help to convert Roman Unicode or unfamiliar codes to tamil unicode. For better spreading of information, some of the resources have been listed over here

Online Resource for converting multi code to Tamil Unicode
Online website

http://www.google.co.in/transliterate/indic/Tamil
http://www.suratha.com/unicode.htm
http://tamileditor.org/
http://software.nhm.in/services/converter [convert multicodes]
http://kandupidi.com/converter/ [convert multicodes]
http://scriptconv.googlelabs.com/


Browser extension

http://www.tavultesoft.com/keymanweb/bookmarklet.php
http://t13n.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/blet/docs/help_ta.html
http://specials.msn.co.in/ilit/TamilWebInstall.aspx

Offline Resource to type Tamil unicode
Downloadable for local Desktop

http://www.google.com/ime/transliteration/
http://specials.msn.co.in/ilit/Tamil.aspx
http://software.nhm.in/products/writer
http://thamizha.com/project/ekalappai
http://download.cnet.com/Shakti-Office-Tamil-English/3000-2079_4-10842225.html?tag=mncol
http://tamil.sarma.co.in/
http://www.azhagi.com/downloads.html
http://kilikeluthi.online.fr/


Browser extension/add-on

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tamilvisai-tamilkey/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gafpeaoljjcahihccmjpkmijdlmocnjl
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adhiyan/versions/?page=1#version-3.0.2
http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/tamil-3999-keyboard

Kindly list over missed utilities for Tamil transliteration