Tamil unicode font help

Windows XP and Windows Vista IE 6.0+ users

If you face any problem to view tamil fonts, then do the following steps in your browser,

Microsoft's Latha.ttf is an unicode font which gets installed automatically along with Windows XP/ Vista.

Steps:

1. Go to Tools > Internet options > Fonts
2. under Language script Select 'Tamil'
3. select Web page font as 'Latha'
4. Apply Ok see the image below.
   
   
   
   Still if you see boxes, rounds or junk characters instead of Tamil fonts follow step 5 also.
   
   
5. Go to 'View' > 'Encoding' and choose 'Unicode (UTF-8)'
   

Windows 98 and Windows 2000/ME With IE 6.0+ users

If you face any problem to view tamil fonts, then do the following steps

Steps:

1. Download any unicode fonts listed on the page. Click.in recommends Latha / TSCu_paranar.
   
2. Install downloaded unicode fonts

1. windows Start > Settings > Control Panel > Fonts
2. From the window Files > Install New Fonts...
   
   
   
   
3. Select the path and files and then click Ok button.
   
4. Or you can Click on the above 'Tamil fonts' link and right click on one of the Tamil fonts and select 'Save target as' and save the fonts in 'C:\WINDOWS\Fonts' directory for windows 98/ME or 'C:\WINNT\Fonts' directory for 2000.
   

If the problem still persists do the following steps

1. Windows XP / Server 2003 / Vista Users
   
1. Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages [Tab]
2. Select the option saying "Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai)".
3. A confirmation message should now appear - press "OK" button on this confirmation message.
   
   
   
4. To install the necessary files from the Windows XP CD and then restart if prompted
   
   
   



2. Windows 2000 Users
   
1. Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional Options > General [Tab]
2. To find and select the Indic check box (see the image)
   
   
   
3. Press "Ok" to install the necessary files from Windows 2000 CD and then restart if prompted.


For Linux Operating System

Copy one of the Kannada fonts file from Tamil Fonts to .fonts directory in the user's home directory. If .fonts directory does not exist in the home directory, please create it. Finally run the command 'fc-cache' from the command prompt.
It is very important to restart the browser, then only you will be able to read the content in Tamil.

Mac and iPhone


In Mac OS X 10.4, if you are using 'Safari' web browser, no need to do anything.

Unfortunately iPhone doesn't support any Indian Unicode fonts. We are as eager as you to make our language channels iPhone compatible.


This will fix almost all the problems. If you still have any problems contact us with the browser version, OS version and the problem you are facing.