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Project Madurai is an
open, world-wide initiative
devoted to preparation & free distribution of ETexts of Tamil
Literary Works led by
Dr.K.Kalyanasundaram in Switzerland and Kumar Mallikarjunan in
USA
Viewing Tamil Fonts at Project Madurai
Guidelines
I. to view web/html version of TSCII based etxts (Windows
OS):
a) make sure that your computer has a
TSCII (version 1.7) compliant font installed in your
computer. These fonts have the generic name TSCxxxx
where xxxx stands for the fontface name TSCinaimathi,
TSCmaduram etc. You can download these fonts
here.
b) open the font preferences section of
your web browser and select any TSCII font as the
default font for use with the "user-defined" encoding
case. save the settings before leaving the preferences
setting window.
c) select "user-defined" case for
display of the webpage (charset options are usually
under view menu) before downloading the TSCII webpage.
Reload the webpage if necessary.
II. to view Unicode based etexts in Windows OS:
Tamil Unicode is given system-level support in Windows
XP/2000 OS but you need to "enable" it before you can use
it. For this, you need to do the following:
On Windows XP:
Click on "Start->Control Panel->(Date, Time, Language
and Regional Options)->Regional and Language Options"
Click on 'Languages' tab (next to 'Regional Options') at
the top
In 'supplemental language support', tick the "Install
files for Complex Script and right to left languages
(including Thai)" and install the required files.
Windows XP CD may be required for the
above process.
On Windows 2000
Click on 'Start->Settings->Control Panel->Regional
Options'
Click on 'General' tab
You will see a list of languages under 'Language
Settings for the system'. Scroll down the list to tick
'Indic'.
Windows 2000 CD may be required for the
above process.
Windows XP and Windows 2000 System files contain a Tamil
Unicode font called "latha" that can be used to view Tamil
Unicode texts.
On Windows ME, Windows 98
Though Win98/ME does not
support Tamil Unicode at OS level, Tamil Unicode texts can
be viewed on these systems provided you have at least one
unicode font (covering the Tamil range) in the system and
also the Uniscribe processor/font rendering engine (named
usp10.dll) is present in the system. [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 ]
III. Viewing Tamil Etexts in Apple Macintosh Computers
On Mac OS 9.x and Mac OS X (upto 10.3):
You need to have a TSCII-based or Tamil
Unicode font (e.g. Arial Unicode or Code2000) installed
in your computer and follow the procedure given above to
set up the web-browser to use "user-defined"
encoding/charset. Place the new fonts in the "Fonts"
folder of the "Library" folder in your home folder
(~/Library/Fonts/) and restart the computer for the
system to be able to use the Tamil fonts.
On Mac OS 10.4:
As with Win XP/2000, Mac OS 10.4
provides system level support for Tamil Unicode. You
need to enable Tamil by opening up the "System
Preferences >International" menu and enable "Tamil".
IV. Locating etext of a specific Tamil Work:
Chronological, Classified Indices and
Search Engines for Project Madurai etexts are available
here
You may also use Google search by typing
the name of the work directly in Tamil Unicode to find
the unicode version.
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