Auto Transliteration

Azhagi has the facility to transliterate existing English (rather Tanglish) texts without the need to retype them. To auto-transliterate existing texts, one has to just copy and paste the text in the ETA (English text area. i.e. the upper text area) of azhagi and the corresponding Tamil will appear in the bottom screen in no time.

Auto-Transliteration (available in Azhagi since 2000) is unique to Azhagi and it is of immense help to some of the users who had typed out their Tamil film scripts, poems, articles, etc. earlier in 'Tanglish' or collected some matter from the internet which are in Tanglish. To convert their works in Tamil now, there is no need for them to retype the entire existing matter. They just have to paste their Tanglish texts in the ETA of Azhagi and Azhagi will do the rest. Of course, there will be some areas wherein they have to make some minor corrections and alterations.

For a screen snapshot depicting this feature, visit http://azhagi.com/pages/snaps/azPowerful.html. For a message posted on this feature in 'Azhagi' online forum (includes info on user's experiences on getting immensely benefitted from this feature), visit http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/azhagi/message/466

1. You can use this powerful feature (available in Azhagi since 2000) to convert data in Excel files too (for e.g. names, city names, etc.). Just select some columns of data from your Excel file, paste these data in the ETA of Azhagi. They will be copied in columns itself, each column separated by a tab character. After the conversion is over, the converted text in Tamil will appear in the TTA (Tamil text area. i.e. the bottom text area) in the same with each column's characters separated by a tab character. Copy and paste this data from TTA and paste it in some blank columns of your Excel file and you have your converted data ready in Tamil. If Tamil characters appear in unreadable format, just select the characters and apply SaiIndira font. That's all to it.

2. When you paste your English (rather Tanglish) text from an external source onto the ETA of Azhagi, in general, the whole text is converted into its Tamil equivalent. But, sometimes you might require that some portions of your pasted text be kept in English itself, without conversion. To achieve this, if you keep the option 'Use caret as English text delimiter' under 'More preferences' ticked, and if your copied English text has certain portions delimited within carets, then these portions will be kept in English itself without conversion. For ex : you can have your external text as : "appaa, eppadi irukkeenga? ^I am fine^" and when you copy this text in ETA of Azhagi, "appaa, eppadi irukkeenga?" will be converted to Tamil but "I am fine" will be kept intact in English itself.

3. If the text to be converted is large, it will take proportionately longer time for conversion. So, if your text is large, it is better to break it into smaller chunks and attempt conversion on the same. If you try out some sample texts first, then you can judge what 'large' means for your specific computer configuration (processor speed, RAM, etc.)