This website uses the Tamil Standard Code for Information Interchange (TSCII) -
which is the Standard Font Encoding scheme for Tamil. In order to view the
following pages, you need a
TSCII
conformant font
(like - Anjal InaimathiTSC, MylaiTSC, ThunaivanTSC or Sri-TSC). These and several
other TSCII-conformant font faces can be downloaded for free from the
TSCII
website.
Do you see the text in Tamil, below?
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If so,
click here for tamil pages,
else please follow instructions below for installing tamil fonts.
Installing and Using Tamil fonts
Note:
The pages are best viewed with Microsoft Internet
Explorer 4.x and Netscape Communicator 4.x and above. They may viewable with Internet
Explorer 3.0 and Netscape Navigator 3.0. The Macintosh, Unix versions of TSCII
fonts are also available, for details visit
TSCII
site.
1) Murasu Anjal 2000
Click here to download Murasu Anjal 2000
Installing Murasu Anjal 2000 is very easy. If you have downloaded it, just run
the exe file. If you have the CD version, just click on the "Install Murasu
Anjal " button. Anjal provides the font 'InaimathiTSC' which helps to read
our tamil pages. Anjal also helps you to send and receive Tamil emails, type
short texts in tamil using built-in Murasu Editor. For details visit http://www.murasu.com.
Just remember to start Anjal every time you start your computer. You may want to
place it in your startup folder so that it gets started everytime Windows
starts. Remember that Tamil input and Anjal fonts will be disabled if you do not
have Anjal running.
2) Other TSCII Fonts
If you would just like to read our tamil pages,
you need to download any of the following TSCII fonts and install it in your Windows
machine:
Steps to be followed:
- Click on any of the above three fonts
- You will see a dialog box - in that select "save file to disk"
- Save it in a drive/folder of your choice. Let us say you save it to your desktop
- Go to control panel, select settings, select fonts.
- Select file option, select install new font
- Select Windows then Desktop directory (or wherever you have downloaded the font), select the font
you have downloaded from the list on the top and click ok. The font will be installed in your
machine. Now you can read the Tamil pages
Don't forget to write to
Technical Support
if you have any trouble with setting up the Tamil fonts.
For more information Tamil fonts, TSCII and the Net Tamil community, visit these
sites:
http://www.tamil.net/tscii
http://www.tamil.net/tscii/tools.html
http://www.murasu.com
http://www.tamil.net
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