The aim of this site is to guide computer users of Windows platform, to type Unicode Tamil, the way they learnt to write it, known as the VUTAM Type_As_You_Write way.
This is achieved in this (home) page and the (next) implement page, which also has other useful setup info., and info. on the three types of SW available free, for typing and editing Unicode Tamil.
The rest is somewhat technical stuff, connected with the subject matter.
INTRODUCTION:
Facilities of VUTAM:
1. VUTAM enables you to type Unicode Tamil, in the natural, Type_As_You_Write way.
2. Its keyboard layout is quite easy to remember, and hence makes Tamil typing a pleasure, rather than a chore, for those who know to write Tamil.
3. VUTAM Type_As_You_Write can be implemented in mechanical typewriters too, without any change, with all its advantages.
STEP BY STEP:
1) To view and familiarise with VUTAM keyboard layout, please:
<< Click Link: Layout.
2) To get a free Unicode Tamil font file, created using High-Logic's FCP and MS's VOLT, for optionaly copying in the Fonts folder of your machine, please:
<< Click Link: UTAM.
3) VUTAM revolves around the NHM Writer. To download & install it, please:
<< Click Link: NHM.
4) Proceed to implement VUTAM in your machine, with Win2K/XP/Vista. Please:
<< Click Link: Implement.
Notes:
a) VUTAM is spread in three baskets, like the European / International keyboard.
b) VUTAM uses a 'keyboard driver' based software. More on this, later.
c) It will be 'simpler' to implement VUTAM, if the Unicode Consortium comprehends its advantages, over the present encoding 'scheme' of the Tamil Script. More on this, later.
(My special thanks to Yahoo's Geocities, for offering this free web site)