Unicode Fonts

Enabling Unicode in your system is a MUST before getting to know about Unicode fonts. Click here to know how to enable Unicode in your system. Read what is stated below only after enabling unicode.

Latha is the font automatically chosen by Windows, 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, around 25 FREE Unicode Tamil fonts have been made available to the public by the GOI. For samples and details, see http://azhagi.com/sai/uniFonts1.pdf

No Unicode fonts are installed in a system during Win98/ME installation. However, unicode fonts obtained via other legal sources can be installed in a Win98/ME system.

Microsoft's Latha.ttf is a Tamil unicode font which might get installed during WinXP installation in a system. You can find it in the root folder (usually 'c:\windows\fonts') of an XP installation. If not found, one might have to enable unicode in that system. Arial Unicode MS is yet another font which covers the Tamil unicode range of characters. Latha or Arial Unicode MS are not redistributable files and hence we cannot provide any download link for the same in azhagi.com. You may search on 'Latha' or 'Arial Unicode MS' in google and get to know further details.

The Uniscribe processor (usp10.dll) might be present in some win98/ME systems already but one can't be sure whether it is a compatible version and registered properly. Typically, you obtain this processor (available in different versions) by becoming a member of the Microsoft Volt Users Community. Once you obtain this file, just save it in c:\windows\system and your system can show text in unicode without any problems whatsoever (unless otherwise the version of the usp10.dll you obtained is not the right one for your system). Usp10.dll is not a redistributable file and hence we cannot provide any download link for the same in azhagi.com. You may search on 'usp10.dll' in google and get to know further details.

Note: Win98 will become obsolete soon (though it might take quite a while in some parts of the world) and Microsoft's all future OS-es will obviously support unicode. So, it is time for you to look ahead and change your OS, if you can afford to.