How to enable Unicode in your system?

Unicode - How to enable it in your system?

Windows Vista:

Unicode support for Indian languages is in-built into Vista and hence you need not do anything to enable any settings, as in the case of XP/2K (Nevertheless, always visit http://azhagi.com/uniset.html for latest instructions in this regard).

Windows XP (Note: Windows XP CD may be required for the following operation):

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', see whether "Install files for Complex Script and right to left languages (including thai)" is kept ticked.
If ticked, leave it as it is. If not ticked, tick it. It will start installing some required files and Windows XP CD may be required to complete the process.

Note: In case you have misplaced or lost your WinXP CD, contact your PC vendor (i.e. the company which supplied the computer to you) and they should be able to help you out. Also, if you had bought your PC from a reputed vendor, note that such vendors often leave a copy of the full XP CD on your hard drive (say as c:\i386, d:\winxpBack\i386 etc.). If you are able to spot such a directory in your hard drive, then when XP CD is sought by your OS during the above process, specify the location of the CD to this directory (say c:\1386). Also, once the above process is over, we suggest you to take a backup of this directory in a CD-ROM and keep the CD safe so that it can be used in the future, whenever the need arises to effect the above process.

You will have to restart the machine for the new setting to take effect.

See screen snapshot below for better understanding.

Windows 2000 (Note: Windows 2000 CD may be required for the following operation):

Click on 'Start->Settings->Control Panel->Regional Options'
You will see a list of languages under 'Language Settings for the system'. Scroll down the list. When you see 'Indic' see whether it is already ticked.
If ticked, leave it as it is. If not ticked, tick it. It will start installing some required files and Windows 2000 CD will be required to complete the process.

Note: In case you have misplaced or lost your WinXP CD, contact your PC vendor (i.e. the company which supplied the computer to you) and they should be able to help you out.

You might have to restart the machine for the new setting to take effect.

Windows 98/ME:

Tamil Unicode text will be visible in Tamil in Win98/Me, only if there is atleast one Unicode font (covering the Tamil range) in the system and only if the uniscribe processor (named usp10.dll) is present in the system. For more details, please do click here.

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