Powerful benefits of Unicode

Unicode - Its Powerful advantages

Unicode has very powerful advantages and as an user, its time you and/or your company switched over to Unicode computing, documenting and storing.

With UNICODE,

The Tamil text communicated by you is straightaway readable in Tamil by your recipients (using Win XP/2K or above). No need for them to install any font to read your text in Tamil.
In future, the Tamil documents created by you are straightaway available for further computing/processing on them, no matter what operating system or application is used for the processing. This way, the Tamil documents created by you are future- safe. There wont arise a need again to convert your documents to some other encoding.

Also, the capabilities of unicode allow you to achieve very advanced Tamil computing like:

1) Find & Replace in Tamil in MS-Word, Excel etc.

2) Sorting in Tamil (arranging in Tamil alphabetical order) in Excel, Access, MS-Word tables etc. Data-filtering in Tamil too may be possible in MS-Excel.

3) File/folder Naming in Tamil.

4) Searching in search engines in Tamil.

Search engines (Google, Yahoo! etc.) support Unicode and hence you can search in Tamil itself. For a screen snapshot depicting the same, click here

5) Online forums in Tamil.

You can have online groups/forums in Tamil itself - for instance, see http://groups.google.com/group/illam

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