This means that while two (or more) keystrokes are required to display most consonant-vowel combinants, when you use the arrow keys to move the cursor through the text, only a single keystroke is needed to move past each character. The majority of characters are typed using a combination of keystrokes. Grantha letters, which are used for typing Sanskrit, appear on the keyboard and are treated as normal consonants. Pressing Backspace once will delete only the vowel component, so the character displayed on the screen will change back to the consonant, and change again if a different component is typed. Instead, the appropriate vowel component is typed after the consonant it is to be combined with.įor example, the standalone vowel is entered by typing F, but in combination with a consonant, the component ( f key) is usually typed instead, after the consonant, and the consonant-vowel combinant will be displayed. Most of the characters used in Tamil are combinations of consonants and vowels, and these do not appear on the keyboard. Most computers will automatically download a special font if needed to display this language correctly. ![]() The keyboard is designed for users who are familiar with both this layout and the Tamil script, and is intended for use with a normal QWERTY (English) keyboard. ![]()
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