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>6. Keyboard Drivers</H1
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>Once again, lack of standards shows up here. There are
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quite a few Tamil keyboard layouts, the traditional typewriter
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keyboard; then with the surge of internet arrived the romanized
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transliteration keyboards; later the TAmil-Nadu government played
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its part by prescribing a tamilnet99 keyboard. These are only a
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few to talk about; we have a few others which do not fall into any
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of these <SPAN
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>"standards."</SPAN
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>There are two Tamil keyboard drivers for the X Window System,
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both of them set to tamilnet99 standards (see
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>tamilnet99 website</A
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for the details on the keymap). You will be able to download
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both the keydrivers from the
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> Yahoo! tamilinix group files section
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>6.1. tamil_kmap</H2
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>The first driver is <EM
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>tamil_kmap</EM
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created by Vasee. It is based on the original version of
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Siva. It is operable under both TSCII 1.6 and TAB encodings.
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The detailed installation instructions are given in the
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>README</TT
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> file in the package. It is very
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simple to install. First, untar the package into a temporary directory.
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Then type:</P
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> <B
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>cp ta /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/</B
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</P
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> then: <B
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>cp Compose /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1</B
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</P
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>and put the shell script <TT
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>setkb</TT
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into a directory on your system <TT
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>PATH</TT
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> .
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You may need to become <B
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>root</B
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to copy these files into these directories.</P
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>To use the Tamil keyboard, type
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<B
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>setkb tscii</B
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> or <B
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>setkb tab</B
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From inside the keyboard driver you will be able to switch
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between the two standards, and also between Roman and Tamil
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fonts.</P
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>6.2. tamilvp</H2
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>The other keyboard driver, <EM
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>tamilvp</EM
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(vp for Visaip Palakai) is written and maintained by
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Dinesh. As indicated above, you may download that from the
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<I
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>Yahoo! tamilinix group</I
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> file section.
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It is available as rpm (I have not tried it out yet). Just install
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the rpm and files will be in appropriate locations. To run the
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program type <B
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CLASS="command"
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>tamilvp</B
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> and you will get the GUI
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cell to choose between Tamil (TSCII 1.6 or TAB) and English.</P
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