[உபுண்டு தமிழகம்]ஆவணமாக்கத்தில் உள்ள சிக்கல்...

[Ramanraj K]

On 4/13/07, ஆமாச்சு <amachu at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 4/13/07, Ramanraj K <ramanraj.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If the idea is to make the guide particularly useful for people who
> > know *only* Tamil, then, please write the guide using only Tamil.
> > However, an appendix listing the translations you have used for menu
> > headings and other strings, may be included for the benefit of those
> > who know English too,
>
> இப்படி யோசித்து தான் இன்று இப்பக்கத்தை எழுதினேன். ஆங்கிலமே தெரியாத
> ஒருவருக்கு நிரலாக்கம் குறித்தோ கணினி குறித்தோ எப்படிச் சொல்லுவது.
>
> ஒரு முயற்சி...
>
> http://ubuntu-tam.org/tamil_ubuntu_wiki/index.php/எழுத்துக்கள்_-_எண்கள்_-_குறியீடுகள்

Nice :)
A minor correction: 0123456789 are Indian numerals, also called
"Indo-Arabic" because the West came to know it through the very
ancient Arab trade route.

I'll digress a bit to make a point here: I speak a dialect of Telugu
at home that is scriptless (sharing a trait with the scritpless
Sanskrit ;)  Any attempt to make a printed guide in my mother tongue
would leave the translator speechless (err wordless)!  I have
concluded that our ancestors deliberately omitted the script for us.
Then, there are those who abandon speech itself.  Ramana Maharishi
considered words and speech as the sons and grandsons of thought, and
preferred silence that forces one to communicate through action.

Tamil and its script are inseparable and that may be its greatest
pride.  Avvayar, in her Attisudi extols ங- போல் வளை.This is not
capable of easy translation and the extraordinary labour that has gone
into sculpting that script leaves us wonderstruck even now.  Coding
exclusively in Tamil should be possible, given the shape and size of
the emerging Unicode standards.  But I am not sure there is any
Unicode standard for programming constructs themselves so that 'if'
could be represented by not two ASCII codes for 'i' and 'f' but by a
single integer code that could be translated into any other language
in a single step.  BTW, how would you express "if" in Tamil while
coding?

(அ=1)என்றால்
    { } இல்லையேல்
,,,

Has anyone devised coding standards for programming in Tamil?  If none
exist, then please do discuss about having one in the light of what
should be possible with Unicde.  It would be a long and arduous task
but a necessary one to maintain the glory and traditions of Tamil.