Steps to invoke Azhagi's in-built Unicode Editor:
1. Start Azhagi fully by clicking OK in the opening password screen.
2. Press F8 (or) click the 'Unicode Editor' button at the top of Azhagi screen (or) Click on
'Tools' menu and then on 'Azhagi's Unicode Editor'.
3. Azhagi's Unicode Editor will get displayed.
4. Start typing in English and you will see it appearing in Unicode Tamil.
5. You can use F10 as a toggle to type in Tamil and English alternatively.
Note:
· To type in Unicode in Azhagi's in-built Unicode editor, you may not be required to
enable Unicode fully.
· Azhagi's in-built Unicode editor may work in most Win98 systems too.
· Once you have generated Unicode Tamil text using Azhagi's in-built Unicode editor,
you can copy/paste the Tamil text to any external application/window like Wordpad,
Outlook Express, Blogs, Google/Yahoo Email Message windows, online groups (e.g. http://groups.google.com/group/azhagi) etc.
· If the pasted text does not appear correctly in certain applications like MS-Word,
Notepad etc., then Unicode might have to be enabled fully.
· To get to know how to enable Unicode fully, read ahead.
Windows Vista:
Unicode gets automatically enabled FULLY, along with the OS installation.
Win2K, WinXP:
Click here to know how to enable Unicode in your system.
For "latest" details on how to enable Unicode fully and to learn very powerful benefits of
Unicode, please visit azhagi.com/uniset.html.
Fonts regarding:
Latha is the font automatically chosen by Windows in the above operating systems,
whenever you type in Unicode. If you find a font by name 'Arial Unicode MS' in your
system, you might use that too. Apart from these, many free Unicode Tamil fonts are
available on the net (incl. around 25 FREE Unicode fonts made available to the public by
the GOI). For details, see http://azhagi.com/free.html#freefonts.
Win98 and WinME:
As of now, in Win98/ME, you can type in Unicode from within Azhagi only if:
1. There is atleast one Unicode font installed in your system
2. Your uniscribe processor 'usp10.dll' is of the right version and is registered properly
in
your system.
Even after complying with the above requirements, if you are unable to see Unicode
characters while typing in Azhagi's Unicode editor, you may try upgrading to Windows98
SE (i.e Windows98 second edition) in case you are not using it already. As such, we advise
you to switch over to Windows XP or Vista as you can do a LOT more using the Power of
Unicode. Atleast, you can change your system to dual-boot mode so that you can work
with both Windows 98 and Windows XP.
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