Thavarajah Sabanathan

How to properly view Tamil unicode in Firefox 2.0

NB, after setting it might maybe ask for your Windows Xp istallation CD and reboot required!

1) Open My Computer -> Controlpanel
2) Dobbelt-click on Regional Language Options (icon)
3) Choose Language – tab

Now you can see the following window:

4) Tick the following options:

5) Now click on details button in the same tab as before:

And now the Text Services and Input languages window will open
6) Choose Advanced – tab

Now you see the following window:

Now you have tick the following option:

Window will look like this:

Click on – OK

Now you will switch back to the former window.

Click on – OK

and reboot…

Preview:

Jittu Sharma

விவரிக்க இயலா அளவு மிக்க மகிழ்ச்சி அடைந்தேன்.
அனைவருக்கும் மிகப் பயனுள்ள தகவல்.

பயர் ஃபாக்ஸ் கொண்டு தமிழ் படிக்க உதவும் வழியினை எமக்களித்த உமக்கு எம் பாராட்டுக்கள்.

24 January 07 at 22:00

subbu

Thanks a lot for describing the procedure.But i have a doubt how come IE displays tamill correctly and only FF cant??

7 February 07 at 11:32

Thavarajah Sabanathan

Hi Subbu

Its bcos IE has the own Unicode options, and its not use the OS Unicode options. FireFox are using OS Unicode options, and in windows are Unicode not enabled as default.

In Windows Vista are Unicode enabled as default.

/ Thava

7 February 07 at 22:40

Padma

I use Windows ME and Fire fox. I use Tamil Virtual University Web site a lot.

Normally turning on Character – Gurmukhi used to help me view tamil.

Now it doesnot help.

Please advise

10 February 07 at 07:51

thava

Hi Padma

The webpages used font called TAB-LFS-KAMBAN.TTF…

get the font an see installation guide here: http://www.tamilvu.org/coresite/html/cwfontins.htm

its work on IE bcos, its used dynamic font script…

/ Thava

10 February 07 at 15:29

Padma

I have downloaded the TAB LFS KAMBAN TTF and saved it in the fonts folder in the C/Windows/Fonts.

Still my firefox doesnot work in displaying the tamil script correctly.

I will be much obliged ifyou can advise me on how to configure the view/ charecter encoding feature as well as Tools/ Options/ FOnts and colour advacned for viewing this website correctly.

Cheers,

Padma

I tried adhiyan and other optional add ons for tamil support it still doesnt work.

16 February 07 at 01:43

prabha

Dear Thavarajah,

Thank you very much for your excellent tips on enabling unicode properly in Firefox under windows XP. I was struggling for many months to view Unicode Tamil websites resulting in using IE which I don’t like to use for my web browsing.

http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/

Now this site is viewed properly with your guidance.

Regards,

Prabha

9 June 07 at 04:59

Raj

I would like to thank you for your help.

5 October 07 at 03:30

Badri Seshadri

Alternately, this can be much easily accomplished with installing ‘NHM Writer’ software, which will handle this automatically and also provide a software using which one can type in Tamil producing output in Unicode, Bamini, TSCII and so on. The software can be downloaded from http://www.nhm.in/software/

31 December 07 at 05:26

Jeevaraj

THank you very much for your help we were searching for all different types of fonts but it was a simple problem in the end. Thank you very much again.

13 January 08 at 02:17

clare

Thank you very much i can finally type in tamil. There’s a problem i cant download software when i’m at school, so my teacher told me to use tamilsg editor. Thanks again.

VIA:[http://asksiva.f2v.net/online-tamil-text-editor-147.htm]

18 May 08 at 20:00

Tamillan

How to properly view Tamil unicode in Firefox 2.0 with GNU/Linux Operating system? please Help me!

11 February 09 at 11:20

thava

Which distribution are you using?

/ Thava

11 February 09 at 11:29

Tamillan

I have Asus EEE Pc Seris Laptop With GNU/Linux Operating system

15 February 09 at 21:26

Kumaran Kumarathurai

Try to install Tamil Language pack at Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/da/sunbird/addon/2989

18 February 09 at 08:41

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