The above is 'Direct Tamil Input' in MS-Word (in Tscii encoding, using SaiIndira font). One can do this Tamil transliteration/typing in ANY windows application like MS-Powerpoint, MS-Excel, MS-Access, Outlook Express, Wordpad, Notepad, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, etc. For instance, start Azhagi fully, ensure that 'Unicode Input' under 'Preferences' menu of Azhagi is un-ticked (i.e. REMOVE the tick, if present), open any other application (say MS-Word), set that application's font to SaiIndira (as circled and shown in the screenshot above) or any other TSCII encoded font (any font in your system whose name starts with 'TSC' or 'Tsc'), press 'F10', type in English and see it in Tamil. As simple as that.
The above is 'Direct Tamil Input' in MS-Word (in Unicode, using Latha font). One can do this Tamil transliteration/typing in ANY windows application like MS-Powerpoint, MS-Excel, MS-Access, Outlook Express, Wordpad, Notepad, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail etc. etc. For instance, start Azhagi fully, ensure that 'Unicode Input' under 'Preferences' menu of Azhagi is ticked, open any other application (say MS-Excel), press 'F10', type in English and see it in Tamil. As simple as that. There is no need to set font initially. Latha font is automatically set (as circled and shown in the screenshot).
You can see one more snapshot below for input in Unicode in MS-Word. Part of the contents explain the power of Unicode in effecting Tamil Sorting, Tamil Find/Replace, etc.
Important Note:
To type in Unicode in certain applications (esp. MS-Word), you need to enable Unicode fully in your system. To do the same and to know how to type in MS-Word, do either one of the following:
1) Visit http://azhagi.com/uniset.html
2) Start 'Azhagi' application fully. On it's opening window, please click the banner (as you see in the screenshot below) with text starting as 'Open any external application, like MS-Word. ...'. After clicking the same, step-by-step instructions will get displayed with clear-cut screenshots. Please read the sections pertaining to Unicode.
