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The primary goal of STC is to develop and implement a character encoding
standard for Tamil, named TSCII, that will work across all
platforms with the existing software applications. The members also
discuss the standardisation of keyboard input schemes, and
transliteration schemes.
The core activities can be summarised as follows:
Defining an 8-bit bilingual character encoding scheme for Tamil
(TSCII) that will work across all platforms with existing
software applications.
Develop sorting and searching algorithms and implement them in
different applications. Develop proof-of-concept applications in
different platforms to aid software developers in implementing TSCII.
Define standard keyboard input schemes.
Define standard document formatting methods, with a special emphasis
on web pages, so that they are usable with the least end-user
interference. (Font naming, use of FONT & META tags in HTML, filename
extensions, etc).
Define a standard roman-transliteration scheme for Tamil.
Define a standard symbols-encoding (Dingbat font).
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