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Tamil keyboard, word processor released

This will now enable people to send Tamil email and use the language for general computing purposes.

The products were presented to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi today.

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The companies will supply the software free to 700 select higher secondary schools in the state.

Accepting the Tamil software and appreciating the efforts of the software firms Suvita and Association of Tamil Software Developers, Karunanidhi said administrative work in Tamil should be first computerised in Thiruvarur district and later in other districts.

Suvita Tamil word processor for the Windows operating system has functionalities of MS Word, Word Perfect and Word Star packages and uses standardised fonts.

It also has facilities like spell check, grammar check, Tamil and English dictionaries. The software was developed within 10 days of the state government accepting the standardised coding procedure for Tamil computer software on June 13.

These developments followed a Tamilnet Conference organised in the Madras in February.

Earlier:

• Thinking in Tamil
  TamilNet 99 has invited suggestions for standardising a Tamil keyboard

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