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font sample *	font information
	aAvarangal    [ show all samples ]  (aava1.ttf) Source: Free download from Jainworld TAMIL. Look for "please Click Here to download the font". Stats: Version 2.3 2000 has 548 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	Aks Tamil Cheran    [ show all samples ]  (aksCheran.ttf) Source: Installed with the free edition of Aksharamala 2004. Requires registration. Stats: Version 1.00 has 293 glyphs and 2 kerning pairs Support: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	Akshar Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (Akshar.ttf) Source: Free download from Kamban Software. Stats: Version 0.07 December 23, 2004 has 1,751 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Kannada, Latin, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Kannada, Malayalam (old style), Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu
	Arial Unicode MS    [ show all samples ]  (arialuni.ttf) Source: Comes with Microsoft's Office 2000, FrontPage 2000, Office XP and Publisher 2002. Stats: Version 1.00 has 50,377 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Balochi, Persian, Shahmukhi, Urdu), Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Kannada, Korean (Hangul only), Latin, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Farsi, Urdu), Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic (default, Japanese, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional), Kana (default, Japanese), Kannada, Korean, Tamil
	ArulMathiUnicode    [ show all samples ] Note: This font works only with Murasu Anjal software - it is not a general use Unicode font - no .ttf / .otf file will be installed. Source: Free download of unifp.exe from the Murasu Anjal User forum (after you sign up) Support: n/a
	Code2000    [ show all samples ]  (code2000.ttf) Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage. Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai
	ETTamilNew    [ show all samples ]  (ETTamilNew.ttf from TamilFiles.zip) Source: Free download from Ernst Tremel. (Click "Tamil" on the left to get to the download page.) Stats: Version 1.000... has 289 glyphs and 4 kerning pairs Support: Tamil OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	Free Serif    [ show all samples ]  (FreeSerif.ttf, FreeSerifBold.ttf, FreeSerifItalic.ttf, and FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz) Note: Bold and italic styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font. Source: Free download from Savannah. Stats: Version 1.52 has 3,914 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Malayalam, Tamil, Thaana, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Latin, Malayalam (traditional), Tamil
	InaiKathir_Unicode and InaiMathi_Unicode    [ show all samples ] Note: These fonts work only with Murasu Anjal software - they are not general use Unicode fonts - no .ttf / .otf files will be installed. Source: Free download of unifp.exe from the Murasu Anjal User forum (after you sign up) Support: n/a
	JanaTamil    [ show all samples ]  (RRJanaTamil.TTF from JanaTamil.zip) Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site. Stats: Version 0.99.1 July 2004 has 205 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Tamil OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	Latha    [ show all samples ]  (latha.ttf) Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000. Also available from devanaagarii.net. Stats: Version 1.21 has 193 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Tamil OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	Lohit Tamil    [ show all samples ]  (lohit_ta.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz) Source: Free download from Ubuntu. Stats: Version 1.00 has 287 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Tamil OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	RaghuTamil    [ show all samples ]  (RRRaghuTamil_ship.ttf) Source: Free download from IndiX: Indian Language support for the Linux Operating System. Stats: Version 1.00 has 205 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Tamil OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	SamyakSans    [ show all samples ]  (SamyakSans.ttf) Source: Free download from gnowledge.org. Stats: Version 1.0 has 2,045 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Bengali, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil
	Saraswati5    [ show all samples ]  (SaraswatiNormal.ttf and SaraswatiBold.ttf) Note: This font does not have the OpenType tables necessary for Tamil. Source: Free download from Sun Microsystems (after registration). Stats: Version 1/17/03 has 1,803 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Latin
	SooriyanDotCom    [ show all samples ]  (SooriyanDotCom.ttf) Source: Free download from Sooriyan.com. Stats: Version 1.00 March 19, 2004 has 288 glyphs and 146 kerning pairs Support: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	Swaminatha    [ show all samples ]  (swaminatha.ttf) Source: Free download from the Flowers of Devotion page. Stats: Version 1.0 has 152 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Tamil OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	TAMu_Kadambri    [ show all samples ]  (TAMu_Kadampari.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz) Source: Free download from Ubuntu. Stats: Version 20th Nov 1999 has 221 glyphs and 113 kerning pairs Support: Tamil (Tamil characters also mapped to Latin codepoints) OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	TAMu_Kalyani    [ show all samples ]  (TAMu_Kalyani.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz) Source: Free download from Ubuntu. Stats: Version 19th Nov 1999 has 227 glyphs and 113 kerning pairs Support: Tamil (Tamil characters also mapped to Latin codepoints) OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	TAMu_Maduram    [ show all samples ]  (TAMu_Maduram.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz) Source: Free download from Ubuntu. Stats: Version 1.00 19/11/1999 has 223 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Tamil (Tamil characters also mapped to Latin codepoints) OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	TAU_1_ELANGO_Barathi    [ show all samples ]  (tau1_bar.ttf) Source: Free download from Cadgraf Digitals. Click the "Free Download" button and pick "TAU_ELANGO_Barathi". Note that the TAB... and TAM... fonts are not Unicode. Stats: Version 1 has 239 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Tamil OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	ThendralUni    [ show all samples ]  (ThendralUni.ttf) Source: Free download from csd_one. Stats: Version 1.0 May 2003 has 231 glyphs and 2 kerning pairs Support: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	TheneeUni    [ show all samples ]  (TheneeUni.TTF) Source: Free download from csd_one. Stats: Version 3.001 has 261 glyphs and 37 kerning pairs Support: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	TSCuthamba    [ show all samples ]  (TSCuthamba.ttf) Source: Free download from www.chennainetwork.com. Stats: Version 1.00 Sept 5, 2003 has 239 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Tamil OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	TSCu_Comic    [ show all samples ]  (TSCuComic.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz) Source: Free download from Ubuntu. Stats: Version 1.00 Sep 06 1999 has 230 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Tamil, Latin; Tamil characters also mapped to some codepoints outside of the Basic Latin and Tamil blocks. OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	TSCu_Paranar    [ show all samples ]  (TSCu_Paranar.ttf [regular], TSCu_Paranarb.ttf [bold], and TSCu_Paranai.ttf [italic] from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz) Source: Free download from Ubuntu. Stats: Version 1.00 has 225 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	TSCu_Times    [ show all samples ]  (TSCu_Times.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz) Source: Free download from Ubuntu. Stats: Version 1.00 has 231 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
	VaigaiUni    [ show all samples ]  (VaigaiUni.TTF) Source: Free download from csd_one. Stats: Version 1.00 January 12 2004 has 228 glyphs and 15 kerning pairs Support: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

 

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• The Unicode implementation of Tamil is described in chapter 9 (South Asian Scripts) of The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0.
• The Unicode character code charts are available at the organization's website.
• SALRC (South Asia Language Resource Center) has recommendations on Unicode fonts, input schemes, and keyboard layouts.
• Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about the Tamil Unicode block and its characters can be found on decodeunicode's Tamil block page (in English and German/Deutsch).
• Writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot.
• Microsoft provides OpenType information for Tamil font developers.

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