Tamil in Plan 9

Introduction

This page is about enabling Tamil support in Plan 9 using TUNE, a new 16 bit encoding scheme. Unlike Unicode, which requires complex glyph subsititution and glyph positioning information to render Tamil, TUNE maps each character to a single glyph. This property of TUNE makes it straight forward to enable Tamil support.

Fonts

Madhavi from here, converted using ttf2subf.

Input Method

in progress.

Character Set Conversion

Tcs(1) performs TUNE ↔ Unicode conversions.

Examples
tcs -f tune
Convert TUNE into Unicode.
tcs -t tune
Convert Unicode into TUNE.

Links

TUNE: home, introduction, code chart, fonts, sample text, mailing list (members only), criticism
Unicode: code chart, chapter 9: South Asian Scripts, sample text, FAQ, why not Unicode?

Contact

Arvindh Rajesh Tamilmani
arvindht@gmail.com