Software you  need


Adobe  file reader (version 4.0)

Adobe file reader allows you  to read pdf files. Most  of the pages at this site are in this format

Tamil fonts and Tamil enabling software

Tamil fonts are of two kinds. The 7 bit fonts occupy the lower 128 positions of the ASCII table. Fonts of this type can be installed in the font folder (start-control panel-install font) and used in all windows applications. Mylai plain and Mylai Sri are two of the fonts of this kind.

The 8 bit Tamil fonts allow you  to enter both English and Tamil letters in the same document. The English letters are
located in the lower 128 locations.  The Tamil letters are located in the upper 128 locations. However to  type in Tamil you have to have a Tamil enabler software like Murasu Anjal, Suvadi or Keyman. Kayman allows you to enter in Tamil in all kinds of windows applications.

TSCII and Tamilnet99 fonts:

There are so many Tamil fonts that are available for anyone to use. However each one of these fonts uses  a different
encoding scheme. Because of the different encoding scheme used by different fonts, a document created
with one font can't be read using a different font. To overcome this difficulty a standardized encoding
system (TSCII) was developed in 1977.

In 1999 , the Tamilnadu Government introduced another encoding standard called Tamilnet99 standard.

Tamil fonts use various keyboard layout style. The most common layout style is the Tamil typewriter.
However, lately the transliterated Tamil layout (anjal) has become very popular. It is very easy to type in Tamil using anjal keyboard layout style.

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