Before attempting to know anything about Unicode, we advise you to have your system
enabled for Unicode fully, if possible. Click here to know how
to enable Unicode in your
system. By enabling Unicode fully, advanced Tamil computing like Sorting in Tamil (in MS-Excel, Access, MS-Word tables etc.), Data Filtering in Tamil (in MS-Excel), Find&Replace in
Tamil (in various MS applications like MS-Word, Excel, Notepad, Powerpoint, Access etc.),
File/Folder names in Tamil, Databases in Tamil (in MS-Access), etc. can be achieved.
If enabling Unicode is not possible for certain reasons, that's not an issue, as such. Do
please read ahead.
· How to type in Unicode from within Azhagi?
· How to type in Unicode in MS-Word and MS-Powerpoint?
· How to type in Unicode in all other windows applications (gmail, notepad etc.)?
· How to convert Tamil text (in Tscii) typed/pasted in Azhagi to Unicode?
· What are the default Unicode fonts? Where can one get more Unicode fonts?
· What are the immense benefits of Unicode? (or) What is the Power
of Unicode?
· What are the issues one might encounter with Unicode? What are the solutions?
· What online resources can help one to know more about Unicode and related things?
· What is Unicode? Why use Unicode?
Unicode is a character encoding mechanism in which every character is assigned a unique
number, irrespective of the operating system or application. Each language's basic
characters have their own distinct and unique character code values. What this means with
regard to fonts is that it is now possible to have one single font (say all-in-one.ttf)
encompassing characters of very many different world languages.
Unicode has very powerful advantages (like Find&Replace in Tamil, Sorting in Tamil,
Searching in search engines like google in Tamil etc.) and as an user, it is time that you
and/or your company switched over to Unicode computing, documenting and storing. If
your text is communicated in Unicode, your WinXP/2K recipients need not have to install
any Tamil font in their system prior to viewing your Tamil text. This paves way for data
communication (in Tamil or any other language for that matter) and storage across
computers to be as simple, straightforward and future-safe (as it is for English). Do get to
know all about the Power of Unicode, by clicking here.
For more information and FAQ on Unicode and related topics, you may also visit the online
resources mentioned under the previous query. If you join Azhagi's primary Yahoo online
forum at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/azhagi,
it will immensely help, as users' various
questions on Unicode (and any other aspect of Azhagi) are answered therein. Additionally,
you may also join http://groups.google.com/group/azhagi
if you are used to google
groups and gmail.
While joining any of the online groups mentioned above, you can always opt for 'No Email'
option and see all the messages posted, over the net itself.
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