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NLCI Tamil WinScript Keyboard Help

NLCI Tamil WinScript Keyboard help

This Keyboard mimic Tamil WinScript Keyboard Layout designed by NLCI in 1988. Several linguists and members of translation community are still using this keyboard layout for keyboarding the text. This is a phonetic based keyboarding system designed with the objective of keyboarding text with minimal keystrokes. Keys are also layed out according the frequency of occurance, yet tried to follow a phonetic based keyboarding system.

Keyboard layout

Input sequences

Special cases

Keys Character
ee
ii
ll
lll
LL
nn
oo
rr
uu
ss

Virama

X is used as virama Eg k X L will generate க்‌ள

Using =

Keys Character
=r
=z

Using \

Keys Character
\n
\L
\r

Conjuncts

x is used as conjuncts Eg k x l will generate க்ள

Numbers

` Backtick with number will get Tamil number Eg ` 1 will generate

Backtick for change into English

` Backtick is used to change into English Eg ` will generate q

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