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If you can’t, you need a Unicode Tamil font. Just ask someone who’s using Windows 2000 or Windows XP for a font called “Latha”. It’ the best one I’ve seen.
I taught myself the word “autodidact”, therefore I am
Kingsley 2.0 
Well, your post is technically wrong. I came vaguely make out that’s Tamil, but I still can’t read it. You think if I manage to find this “Latha” I can learn tamil?Ankh
How do you type in Tamil? Is there a special Tamil keyboard software you use?tsquared
even if the font was on my system..i still wouldn’t be able to read your post….why? I can’t read TamilPatrix [patrix99@rediffmail.com]
Ankh! Shoo, Don’t you have an interview or something to go to? And tell them to make the Arial unicode collection available for free download – it’s the least they can do.
Tsquared: There’re programs which transliterate as I type: Murasu and eKalappai. So if I type something like “naan”, it transliterates it to Tamil in real time. It isn’t perfect, but it is much better than learning a Tamil keyboard.Visit me @ http://kingsley.blog-city.com
Patrix, smartass, very funny, ha ha.Visit me @ http://kingsley.blog-city.com
Windows 2000 and XP have built in support for Tamil and come with the latha.ttf font. Unfortunately just copying Latha.ttf to windows98 installation won’t work properly. Unicode support in Windows 98 is really poor.
Thisaigal october issue gave a solution.
http://www.thisaigal.com/oct/unitamcomp1.htmlKumaraguru
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Kingsley, Thanks much.tsquared
That was a bummer. What did I do wrong? I can see Tamil fornts in notepad but not here.tsquared
“கிங்க்ச்லி, மிகவும் நன்ரி” is what you typed :). You’re welcome.
You had typed it in TSCII, I converted it to Unicode. Make sure that the encoding is set to Unicode and not Anjal, TAB or TSCII, which are older and not universally accepted encodings.Visit me @ http://kingsley.blog-city.com
கிங்ச்லி ரொம்ப நாளா காத்திட்டிருந்தேன் தமிழுக்கு
நன்றி
ரவியாரவியா [ravithan@hotmail.com]
Those who havn’t W2000 or xp can use converters
like surathas unicode to TSCII http://www.suratha.com/uni2tsc.htm
also Any fonts to Unicode http://www.jaffnalibrary.com/tools/tamilconverter.htm. Some times just copy the text to wordpad (not word) and changing the font worksraviaa [ravithan@hotmail.com]
Kingsley. that is good. it is high time you start a Tamil blog 🙂
வலைப்பூ எப்போ ஆரம்பிக்கப் போகிறீங்க? அதுசரி… நீங்க சொன்னாற்போல் “லதா”வை ஏற்கனவே என் எழுத்துருக்களில் சேர்த்து பார்த்துவிட்டேன். குமரகுரு சொன்னதுபோல் windows 98 ல் லதா சரியா வரவில்லை. லதாவை ஏற்றியவுடன் என் கம்ப்யூடரில் மத்த எழுத்த்ருக்களும் மாறிப்போச்சு. உதாரணமக என் வலைப்பூவில் இருக்கும் blogroll பேர் எல்லாம் சதுரம் சதுரமாக தெரிய ஆரம்பித்தது. அதேபோல் பல ஆங்கில எழுத்துக்கள் வெறும் சதுரங்களாயின. லதாவை அக்ற்றியவுட?தான் – அப்பாடி பழைய மாதிரி எழுத்துக்கள் தெரிய ஆரம்பித்தன. For more interaction on Tamil blogging join Tamil bloggers yahoo group -http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tamilblogsaruna
If you are going to post Tamil more frequently, it would be a good idea to put the utf-8 charset meta tag on your pages. Doesn’t break English, and displays utf-8 non latin characters as well.???????????? ??????????????? [alkuma@yahoo.com]
Does anyone know of a unicoded Tamil font other than Latha?
I’m compiling a list, for Why can’t I see the Hindi section????????????? ??????????????? [alkuma@yahoo.com]
How does one use Arial Unicode based fonts in Windows 98 ? Grateful if some one can help.