Tamil Font Help

About the font used in our site

 Our site is using unicode font, so all the contents that are displayed are all in UNICODE format.  

Why I can  not read the Tamil in my machine?

Well, there may be several factors which determines your machine's capability in displaying UNICODE font.   The main reasons are either you may not have a proper font or your machine is not equiped to view UNICODE font.  If you are using Windows 2000  / Win XP / Win Vista  then you should be able to view our site without any problem but make sure you have a proper font. 

Try the following steps one by one and see which step fixes your problem.   

Step-1 Fix by copying font

We use Latha.ttf font by default.  So download this Latha.ttf font  to see whether it fixes your problem .   Here is the font download:  LATHA.TTF .  Now right click on the link  and select 'Save target as' and save the fonts into 'C:\WINDOWS\Fonts' directory.    Now close all your browsers and reopen it and see this fixes your problem.

 Step-2 Fix with Windows Install CD

Windows XP, 2003 Users

1. Go to Control Panel and Select Regional and Language Options


2. Now select Languages Tab


3. Check the box which is circled in red


4. Click Appy to install, Make sure you have Windows Installation CD ready with you.   (After installation , reboot the machine)

Windows 2000 Users

1. Go to Control Panel and Select Regional Options


2. Click General Tab and check the option 'Indic' in the list as shown in the picture

The Last Step:- (Turning on Non-Unicode Display)

The final step is to go for  non-unicode font because your machine may have older versions of IE,  or  Firfox  or  whatever reasons could be but we are there to help you.   Now is the time to enable non-Unicode font display, just follow the below step to enable.

1. Download this TSC_Avarangal.TTF font and save the font into C:\Windows\fonts directory.

2. Enable Non-Unicode font display by click this button

 

-The End.

If you want to reset back to Unicode , click this button