phonetic translation to tamil

I know that, and that's why I'm trying to contribute with something which I think is a good idea. You see, Armenian alphabet is relatively simple, many Indian writing systems are considerably bigger, and that's why I suggested to pay attention for dead char technique, especially because it is native to Windows. Another difference is: Soviet Union create a big culture of transliteration of nearly everything in Russian, and, in contrast to Indians, Soviet people all spoke Russian. Republics of Armenia and Estonia were the most culturally isolated, but I'm still amazed by the quality of Russian knowledge by many young Armenians today — with some accent, but wonderfully rich and deep in understanding of the extremely complex subtleties of Russian. So, the problems of different languages are must easier, as people worked at them a lot. And of course, Armenians use their own keyboard layout, without any need to use of the transliteration approaches.

This is all the matter of culture. Unlike Soviet Union, Indians don't have a common language known to each and every one. (Maybe just English. I had an illusion that majority knew Hindi, but people told me that I'm mistaken; probably, it was just the inertia of my thinking.)

Also, probably no one else on CodeProject answered so many questions by Indian members on how to use computers and create software capable of working with the languages of different Indian cultures. Some did not know what kind of writing system they used, and I had to point it out. At the same time, most Indian writing systems are popular enough to be supported on most modern systems by default. I was able to write on those languages, yet people asked me how to do it. I suspect the problem is mostly psychological: people used to think that the variety of Indian languages are so complex that it's better not to sort them out. Also, the writing systems are indeed more complex than many others (like Armenian). My own feeling is that this is a matter of respect to the cultures. Indian cultures deserve more effort to keep language use authentic and accurate. On computers, too.

—SA

Of course, it's up to them. This is just the alternative idea. I'm using alternative keyboard myself, and to me, this is critical. I do know Turkish writing system — it is totally derived from Latin, in contrast to Tamil and other systems used in India, which are all or most are Brahmic...
Please also see my new comment above.
—SA