Azhagi does Letter-to-Letter Synchronous 'Dual Screen' Tamil Transliteration, a First of its kind. Additionally, Azhagi does 'Single Screen' Transliteration also. Notwithstanding this, Azhagi provides Direct Tamil Input in ANY windows application like MS-Word, Outlook Express etc. A summary of the features of Azhagi follows [To read Azhagi's features in Tamil, click here]

• Extremely User-Friendly
  You can just freely keep typing/editing your English text like 'neenga nalam', 'avar eppadi?' etc. in an English text area and the corresponding Tamil text will get generated/modified automatically and synchronously in a SEPARATE Tamil text area. As simple as that. Apart from Dual Screen Transliteration (English text is visible and available synchronously), you can directly type your English text in the Tamil text area itself (in full-screen) to generate the Tamil text alone. English text wont be visible in this case. This is Single Screen mode of transliteration. You can opt to type in either mode of Transliteration at any time, as per your convenience.




• Superior Key Mapping
  The fundamental strength of Azhagi lies in its USER'FRIENDLY and FLEXIBLE English-to-Tamil key mapping. For e.g. Sri can be generated in very many different ways as Sri, sri, Shri, sree, Sree, Mr etc. Certain English words like 'dear', 'easy' etc. can be typed in English itself directly. For more examples and explanation on the flexible keymappings, visit http://azhagi.com/easy.html




• 3 Keyboard Layouts
  You can opt amongst 3 different typing/input modes - Phonetic, Tamilnet99 and Tamil'Typewriter.
  
  
  
• Direct Tamil Input in ANY Windows application
  You can directly type/transliterate in any windows application like Ms-Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook Express, Yahoo! mail, Hotmail, Yahoo! messenger, MSN Messenger etc.




• Unicode Tamil Input
  You can directly type in Unicode Tamil in ANY unicode-aware external Windows application like MS-Word, Excel etc.




• Unicode Converter
  A sophisticated Unicode Converter which can do even BULK PROCESSING - i.e. convert multiple html files (text and javascript files too) in a jiffy is available.
  
  
  
• Sorting, Find & Replace
  With the power of Unicode, Sorting in Tamil, Find & Replace in Tamil are also possible directly in MS-Word, Excel, Access etc. Even the names of files and fodlers can be had in Tamil !!!
  
  
  
• Auto-Insertion
  You can insert user-defined Tamil texts (e.g. Bharathiar poems, Tamil proverbs etc.) in ANY windows application.
  
  
  
• Popup Display
  You can use Alt-F10 to convert a line or portion or whole of the English text in your current application to Tamil and have the same shown on a new and separate pop-up window.
  
  
  
• Save
  You can save your Tamil Text and its corresponding English text, in separate Rich Text Format Files, which are readable in MS-Word and all similar editors across computer platforms. This gives a tremendous advantage for any user. Please note that RTF standard is a method of encoding formatted text and graphics for easy transfer between different programs and different operations. RTF standard provides a format for text and graphics interchange that can be used with different output devices and operating systems.
  
  
  
• Print
  You can print your Tamil Text from ANY windows application, like Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Outlook Express etc.
  
  
  
• Email
  You can email the Tamil Text and its corresponding English text as an attachment or part of the message body, via ALL popular Email Clients.




• Chat
  You can chat directly in Tamil in messengers like MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger etc.
  
  
  
• Recipients do not require Tamil font
  If your text is communicated in Unicode Tamil, your WinXP/2K recipients do not require any Tamil font to read your Tamil mails etc. Else, your recipients need to install once, a small font at their end. The font is FREE and comes along with Azhagi pack and you can pass it on to the recipients freely via email, cd-rom etc. A font installer is also available at http://azhagi.com/free1.html.
  
  
  Build websites in Tamil
  You can build websites in Tamil so easily, using our Dynamic Tamil font, which is given to you FREE of cost with the purchase of any version of Azhagi. With our dynamic font, visitors need not download any Tamil font to view your website. Your site will load in Tamil automatically, as they visit it.
  
  
  
• Find
  You have a multi-featured Find utility which can search on Tamil text or English text or both, during Dual Screen Transliteration. You can type your 'Search text' in English (rather tanglish) itself.
  
  
  
• Search & Replace
  You have a sophisticated Search & Replace utility which can search or search & replace Tamil and English text, during 'Single Screen' (NonTransparent) Transliteration.
  
  
  
• Reverse Transliterator
  You have a sophisticated Reverse Transliterator which can help you convert any Tamil Text back to its exact English phonetic equivalent.
  
  
  Phonetic equivalent for any English text
  You can generate the phonetic Tamil equivalent for any English text straightaway. No need to manipulate by splitting and joining words. The design, structure and key-mapping of Azhagi is that superior. For a better understanding, visit http://azhagi.com/easy.html
  
  
  
• Auto-Transliteration
  You can transliterate English text pasted from external sources too. Just copy and paste the English text from an external editor like Notepad or MS-Word or even a Web'page, onto the English text area of Azhagi and it will get transliterated into Tamil text. For eg., from sites where Tamil content of interest is available in transliterated English, one can just copy them and paste in the English text area of Azhagi and you will get the phonetic Tamil equivalent in the Tamil text area of Azhagi, in quick time. Note that you can even specify which portions of your text should be kept in English itself without getting converted to Tamil.
  
  
  
• Mixed Text
  You can create mixed text (i.e. Tamil and English text intermixed), both during Dual Screen and Single Screen transliteration.
  
  
  
• Word Count
  You can effect word count on Tamil Text (takes care of compound Tamil letters).
  
  
  
• Preferences
  You can have your preferences to set start-up font size, text color, screen appearance etc.




• Pause/Resume
  You can opt to pause/resume the transliteration effects, during Dual Screen transliteration.
  
  
  
• Fewer Key-strokes
  You can ddit your text with much fewer key-strokes, when compared to Single Screen transliteration, since you effect all editing from the English text area itself.
  
  
  
• Change Keymappings
  You can change keymappings for certain letters like 'z', 'ng', 'nk', 'nj' and 'nth'.
  
  
  
• Tamil Numerals
  You can type Tamil numerals corresponding to English numbers.
  
  
  
• Sanskrit Characters
  You can type Sanskrit characters like 'ja', 'sha' 'sri' etc.
  
  
  
• Learner's Keypad
  An optional Tamil keypad provided can be used as an aid to teach/learn Tamil. A complete Tamil Alphabet table and a simple pronunciation guide are also provided. You can generate Tamil text, even without typing, by simple mouse clicks and dragging, with the aid of the optional keypad. This will be very useful for children and old people who may know Tamil but not typing.
  
  
  
• Conversion to TAB encoding
  You can convert your generated Tamil text to TAB encoding.
  
  
  
• Comprehensive Help
  You have comprehensive help documents in-built in the software, covering all aspects of Azhagi in detail.