![Working with Tamil Content in Computing Environments (English)|353x500]
Unicode is an international standard extensively adopted across the industry and the Internet to represent Tamil and other languages. Yet, we still face several legacy issues and ongoing challenges.
The content from government documents cannot be easily extracted. The conversion of documents from one font to another presents problems due to inconsistencies. There exist various, slightly different standards for phonetic transcription of Tamil into latin scripts. There are varied keyboard layouts and input styles for desktop and mobile.
Researchers, developers and practitioners continue to evolve solutions to overcome these challenges. The presentations and discussions will identify needs, issues and solutions for working with Tamil content in varied computing environments.
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Presentation Topics
- Introduction to Unicode - Elango
- Using Tamil Keyboards on Computer and Mobile Platforms - Suganthan
- Android’s New Faster and More Intuitive Method to Type Tamil - Elango
- Working with Tamil Content in PDFs - Shrinivasan
- Tamil Font Styles - Uthayan
- Challenges in Automatic Tamil Font Conversions - Parathan
- Transliteration Approaches for Library Metadata Generation - Natkeeran
Date
July 27, 2024 (Saturday) - Virtual Presentations and Discussion
9:30 am - 11:30 am (Toronto time)
7 pm - 9 pm (Chennai/Jaffna time)
Zoom
Contributors
- UTSC Library Digital Tamil Studies
- Kaniyam Foundation
- Tamil Kanimai Maiyam (தகமை)
- South Asian Canadian Digital Archive (SACDA)