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- Subject: Request for egistration of character set TSCII for TAMIL language
- From: K Kalyanasundaram <kalyan.geo@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:16:13 -0800 (PST)
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To:
ietf-charsets@iana.org
Subject:
Registration of new language charset for Tamil
Character set name:
TSCII
(TAMIL SCRIPT CODE FOR INFORMATION INTERCHANGE)
Character set aliases:
None
Suitability for use in MIME text:
YES
Published Specifications:
www.tscii.org/tsciispec.html
ISO 10646 Equivalency Table (available at Unicode consortium website):
http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn15/
Intended usage:
COMMON
Additional Information:
Tamil is one of the main Indian languages (Dravidian in Origin)
currently spoken by over 70 million people worldwide. TSCII
(Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange) is a bilingual 8-bit
glyph-based encoding scheme (Roman and Tamil) to deal with
Tamil materials on computers and for Information Interchange
across platforms using different protocols and document formats.
The TSCII scheme was collectively worked out through Net-based
discussions in 1998. TSCII is modelled on the ISO-8859-XX scheme
with standard plain ASCII set filling the 7-bit part and a set of Tamil
character glyphs filling the 8-bit part.
The TSCII scheme has been widely in use for over 5 years in all three
popular computer platforms (Windows, Macintosh and Unix/Linux).
In addition to millions of home-users (particularly in India,
Singapore,
Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Western Europe and North America), TSCII
encoding is used widely in Net-based mailing lists, newspapers
and ezines on-line, digital library etc. Legacy data in TSCII format
generated during the last 5 years is quite substantial and is growing
constantly.
TSCII as an established language encoding is already recognized
by major IT players like the Unicode Consortium, Microsoft, Apple,
Oracle and Sun Microsystems. With OS-level support for Tamil in
Microsoft Windows 2000 and later OS releases and very recently in
Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) release, Tamil Diaspora has started to
use Unicode already. The Purpose of this formal registration with IETF
is to facilitate migration of the vast amounts of legacy data in TSCII
and
multitude of users.
Person(s) & email address to contact for further information:
TSCII USER GROUP represented by
Kalyanasundaram, Kuppuswamy (Switzerland)
kalyan.geo@yahoo.com
Manivannan, Mani (USA)
mmanivannan@gmail.com
Nedumaran, Muthu (Malaysia)
muthu@murasu.com
Kaviarasan, S (USA)
kaviarasan@yahoo.com
Paul, Ravindran K (Malaysia)
ravi@thunaivan.com
Doddannan, Sivaraj (India)
sivaraj@theni.net
RM. Krishnan (India)
poo@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in
Kumar Mallikarjunan (USA)
kumar@exchange.vt.edu
Sinnathurai Srivas (UK)
SiSrivas@hotmail.com
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