|Welcome to TSCII web site. TSCII stands for Tamil Standard Code
for Information Interchange. It was created by a group of Font
developers, vendors, users, Tamil scholars and enthusiasts,
through open net based discussion. Shortly after the First
International Tamil Internet Conference in Singapore, the
participants and several early internet users joined the mailing
list called webmasters hosted by Bala Pillai's tamil.net.
Starting in September 1997, the discussions converged on a set
of specifications detailed at discussions are archived at
Organizers of this effort created a group called "Standards for
Tamil Computing Group" that hosted the first TSCII site at
http://www.tamil.net/tscii/ that remains the primary TSCII site
even today. TSCII discussions eventually moved on to
firstname.lastname@example.org and continue the discussions even
today. To subscribe to this discussion send an e-mail to The
primary goal of STC is to develop and implement a character
encoding standard for Tamil, named TSCII, that wi