Any vowel diacritic that is typed immediately after typing the Pulli mark will not be combined with the consonant. Long vowel characters are typed either by a combination of the basic vowel key, or by pressing the vowel key twice.īecause the consonants contain the implicit vowel அ, to produce a pure consonant it is necessary to add the Pulli mark ் by typing a semicolon immediately after the consonant. The first vowel அ is implicit in the consonants, so typing this vowel after a consonant will display this as a standalone vowel, and not combine it with the consonant. The vowel diacritics பெ ( n), பே ( N) and பை ( i) will not be displayed until a consonant is typed (in the preceding examples the consonant ப is shown). When the vowel component appears above, below or to the right of a consonant, it should be typed after the consonant. When a vowel or part of a vowel appears before a consonant, it should be typed first. In general, characters should be entered with this keyboard in the same order as they would be written on paper. This is the case whether the vowel component appears to the left or right of, above or below the consonant. Moving the cursor to the left of a combinant character and pressing Delete will erase the whole character, but if you move the cursor to the right of a combinant and press Backspace, only the vowel component will be erased. This means that while two (or more) keystrokes are required to display most consonant-vowel combinants, when you use the arrow keys to move the cursor through the text, only a single keystroke is needed to move past each character. The vowel ஔ is typed using a combination of keystrokes.Īlthough Tamil characters are typed using separate keys for consonants and diacritics, the characters that appear on screen will be combinants, which the computer sees as a single character. Multiple font encodings and keyboard layouts are supported for Tamil.The full keyboard layout consists of the eighteen consonants க ங ச ஞ ட ண த ந ப ம ய ர ல வ ழ ள ற ன, four Grantha consonants ஸ ஷ ஜ ஹ ( க்ஷ and ஸ்ரீ are typed with key combinations), eleven vowels அ ஆ இ ஈ உ ஊ எ ஏ ஐ ஒ ஓ, vowel diacritics ி ீ ா ர் பெ பே பை, combinants and components சூ கூ மூ டூ ரூ ஞ று நு சு வு லு ரு ழு யு ளு னு கு பு து மு டு ணு டி டீ and the Pulli ் and Aytham ஃ marks, as well as various punctuation marks. (*) Tamil, Hindi, Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Oriya, Sourashtra, Assamese, Devanagari and Grantha. You can very well change the existing key mappings, have custom hotkeys to toggle between languages, utilise an in-built font viewer, avail a first of its kind Tamil font converter which is extendable by the user himself/herself and do much more. You can easily extend Azhagi+ to type in any language+font+keyboard combination by availing a very special feature. You can quickly extend Azhagi+ to transliterate in any Tamil font by using a never-before-seen feature. It is very small (less than 1 MB) yet power-packed with innovative features.Īzhagi+ has possessed the fastest of all Tamil transliteration schemes, ever since its inception in 2000. Typing can be effected directly in any Windows application (MS Word, Facebook, WhatsApp, Quora, SMS, Gmail, Google Docs/Sheets/Slides/Forms/Etc., Twitter, Instagram, PhotoShop, PageMaker, InDesign, CorelDraw, Skype, Excel, PowerPoint, LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer/Calc/Forms/Impress/Etc., etc., etc., etc.) by the simple press of an hotkey.Īzhagi+ is sleek and portable. Primarily it helps one to type in 16 Indian languages* but it is easily extendable by the user himself or herself to type in any other language of the world too. Azhagi+ is a supremely easy, fast, unique and feature-rich transliteration software.
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