eKalappai is an opensource keyboard manager which can be used to type tamil text. After about 10 months of development ekalappai 3.0 ready for public use. This version is a complete rewrite from its earier versions of eKalappai. Its developed as a free software under GPL V3 license..
E Kalappai Features
=>Supports following 5 keyboards to type Tamil in Unicode encoding:
Tamil99
Phonetic
Typewriter
Bamini
Inscript
=>Keyboard shortcut (F2 key) to toggle between English and Tamil keyboards.
=>Users can change the shortcut key to toggle between English and Tamil keyboards.
=>The keyboard logic is stored in external files in scim-tables format(which is used in: http://www.scim-im.org/scim project) and some of the existing keyboards from SCIM project are reused here.
=>Tamil99 and Tamil-typewriter keymaps are made so as to near fully conform to Tamil Nadu government's prescriptive standards for extension to Unicode as in G.O.Ms 29 dated 23-06-2010 and documents attached tender call of Tamil Virtual Academy TVA/SW/2010-11.