How to type in Unicode?

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How to type in Unicode Tamil in Azhagi and in ANY other windows application (Outlook Express, MS-Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc.)?

Enabling Unicode - your FIRST task

Before attempting to know anything about Unicode, we suggest you to have your system enabled for Unicode fully, if possible. Click here to know how to enable Unicode in your system.

By fully enabling Unicode in your system, 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.

All or some of the matters below have been explained online too, at http://azhagi.com/uniset.html. Please see without fail.

How to type in Unicode Tamil?

a) In Azhagi

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b) In MS-Word and MS-Powerpoint

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c) In all other windows applications

Click here

Office 2000 and earlier versions may not support Unicode typing, using Azhagi. You may have to upgrade to Office 2002 and later versions.

Other important things you might need to know

1. How to effect Unicode conversion? Click here.
2. What are the default Unicode fonts? Where can I get more Unicode fonts? Click here.

3. What are the immense benefits of Unicode (or) What is the Power of Unicode? Click here.
4. What are the issues one might encounter with Unicode? What are the solutions? Click here.

5. What is Unicode all about? Click here.

6. How to effect Non-Unicode (Tscii) input in all windows applications? Click here.

· Not all applications support Unicode. For e.g. older versions of Yahoo! Messenger. So, even after you effect all the settings, when you try to type in Unicode in such applications, you might only see question marks or boxes appearing.

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