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From: "Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram"
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Tamil Numerals were used by ancient tamils. In recent times, these
have been replaced by the arabic ones (apparently there are parts
of the world where Tamils still use these Tamil numerals even today!).
To asssit archiving of ancient tamil literature and to re-kindle
interest and awareness in them, in TSCII encoding we
included these numerals.

TANSCII and TANSMONO encodings recommended at the recent
TamilNet99 conference also have specific slots allocated to these
tamil numerals. Many raised questions to the symbolic form of these
tamil numerals for incorporation in the
font faces. I have now put up a webpage under URL

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/numeral.html

where I have put up scanned images of select pages of the
book "Iniya Thamizh IlakkaNam" by Yogisri Cuddhanantha
Bharathiyar, published by Kavitha Publications, 15 Masilamani
Street, TNagar, Chennai- 600 017.

I have attempted to provide a scaled up image file
to view the symbols clearly. If you take out a printed copy
of the image files, you can get a reasonable good quality of
these symbols. (Further scaling either on photocopier or
of the scanned images do not lead to any improvement.).

Please take note that, there are special symbols used for
Tamil fractions. I have heard about immi, kaaNi, orumA etc from
my grand father when I was young. So it was a pleasure for me to
find the symbols for these after so many years. Many thanks to
Mr. Gandhi Kannadhasan and Mr. Chokkalingam (of Kavitha Publications)
for bringing this book to my attention.

Incidentally, the above book can be a very valuable reference
for tamil software developers who would like to bring in some
intelligence(auto-correction) in the tamil text input process.
Most of the tamil grammar rules are explained in a very simple,
didactic way.

I hope the info. in the above page is useful.

anbudan,
Kalyan

PS: to Mani Manivannan: You may repost this to tamil.net list also.

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