This website uses the Tamil Standard Code for Information Interchange (TSCII) - which is the Standard Font Encoding scheme for Tamil. In order to view the following pages, you need a TSCII conformant font (like - Anjal InaimathiTSC, MylaiTSC, MadhuramTSC or Sri-TSC). These and several other TSCII-conformant font faces can be downloaded for free from the TSCII website.

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If so, click here for tamil pages,
else please follow instructions below for installing tamil fonts.

Installing and Using Tamil fonts

Note: The pages are best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x and Netscape Communicator 4.x. They may viewable with Internet Explorer 3.0 and Netscape Navigator 3.0.  The Macintosh, Unix versions of TSCII fonts are also available, for details visit TSCII site.

1) MylaiTSC

If you would just like to read our tamil pages, you need to download MylaiTSC font and install it in your Windows machine.

Steps to be followed:

1.Click on the link download
2.You will see a dialog box - in that select "save file to disk"
3.Save it in a drive/folder of your choice. Let us say you save it to your desktop
4.Go to control panel, select settings, select fonts.
5.Select file option, select install new font
6.Select Windows then Desktop directory (or wherever you have downloaded the font), select the font "mylai tsc" from the list on the top and click ok. The font will be installed in your machine.Now you can read the Tamil pages

2)Murasu Anjal 2000

Click here to download Murasu Anjal 2000
Installing Murasu Anjal 2000 is very easy. If you have downloaded it, just run the exe file. If you have the CD version, just click on the "Install Murasu Anjal " button. Anjal provides the font 'InaimathiTSC' which helps to read our tamil pages. Anjal also helps you to send and receive Tamil emails, type short texts in tamil using built-in Murasu Editor. For details visit http://www.murasu.com

Just remember to start Anjal everytime you start your computer. You may want to place it in your startup folder so that it gets started everytime Windows starts. Remember that Tamil input and Anjal fonts will be disabled if you do not have Anjal running.

Don't forget to write to vatsan@chennaionline.com or vishwak@chennaionline.com if you have any trouble with setting up the Tamil fonts.

Mail your feedback about the Tamil pages to apps@chennaionline.com.

For more information Tamil fonts, TSCII and the Net Tamil community, visit these sites:
http://www.tamil.net/tscii
http://www.tamil.net/tscii/tools.html
http://www.murasu.com
http://www.tamil.net