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Proposal to extend the support for Tamil encoding in Unicode. Includes technical data, tables and images of the proposed character set.
http://www.geocities.com/avarangal/tamilunicode.html

Character table and details of the Thai encoding system.
http://www.langbox.com/codeset/tis620.html

Details on Thai encoding, input and output mechanisms, linguistics and standards. PDF document, requires Acrobat Reader.
http://www.nectec.or.th/it-standards/thaistd_tr.pdf

Information about entering Tamil numerals. Site requires a font download from the main page.
http://www.geocities.com/avarangal/tamil-numerals.htm

Unicode and ISCII-based Java Products for Indian language computing. Suite offers conversion utilities from Unicode to non-Unicode Indic fonts and vice versa.
http://www.mukri.com/

The Indian Script Code for Information Interchange (ISCII) and Indian Script Code for Language Paging (ISCLAP) are two standards supported by the Indian Government. Includes a character set table and a description of the two encoding systems.
http://tdil.mit.gov.in/standards.htm

Involves preparation of a handbook for computing in Indian languages, with languages specific issues. Also contains mailing lists for Indic computing users, developers, standards and CVS logs.
http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net

A description of the ISCII encoding system for indic scripts.
http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/english/codes/indic.html

A description of the Indian Script Code for Information Interchange) as detailed in the IS:13194:1991 standard document. Authored by Shashank Bhatt.
http://www.cicc.or.jp/english/hy...ujyunka/mlit4/7-3India/India.htm

Research project related to Indian languages in computing. Contains details of the work, screen shots and a download of the unicode compatible Raghu font.
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/projects/indix/

Unicode compliant freely downloadable software keyboard input methodologies covering most Indian scripts.
http://www.bangla.name/isis/