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Stepwise instructions - to view Unicode Tamil text -
1. You
need to have
Unicode Tamil fonts
installed on your computer and the Operating System
capable of rendering Tamil Scripts. Windows XP comes
with a Unicode Tamil Font (Latha) and you need not
download/install a unicode font.
2. In the
Control Panel, in Regional/Languages Options you will
need to ensure that Indic/Asian Language option is
checked.
3. Use a
browser that is capable of handling UTF-8 based pages
(Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 5) with the Unicode Tamil
font chosen as the default font for the UTF-8
char-set/encoding view. Unicode Tamil Fonts may be
downloaded from
here
Some users
of Windows 98/NT/ME/2000 Windows NT may find that even
with a Tamil Unicode font installed and the browser
correctly set to View > Encoding > Unicode, some of the
Tamil letters are incorrectly displayed. An example of
this incorrect display may be viewed here using any TSC
font .
This may be due to the earlier
version of usp10.dll used in these operating systems. To
correct this, it may be necessary to update the
usp10.dll file in Windows. To do this,
1. Download the latest version of the
usp10.dll file. [one of the sites for this download is
here . Alternatively, you may download the file from
the Microsoft site
here - save the downloaded .exe file - double click
on the file - give a temporary folder address - the
program will extract a few files into the folder - of
these 'usp.zip' is the one you will need - discard the
other files - unzip usp.zip - it will give two files viz:
usp10.dll and readme.txt ]
2. Go to the Windows folder and find
the file named usp10.dll (usually in the System and/or
System32 sub folder). Rename the file to a different
name say usp10.old .
3. Place the newly downloaded
usp10.dll file in the same folder as the renamed
usp10.old file.
6. Re start the computer.
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