Anjal to Keyman Converter

Anjal is a Tamil font encoding developed for the Anjal word processor, one of the pioneering Tamil computing applications for personal computers.

History

Anjal was created in the late 1980s as part of the Anjal word processing software, which was one of the first comprehensive Tamil typing solutions for DOS and early Windows systems. It enabled many users to begin computing in Tamil.

Usage

Anjal encoding is found in documents created with the Anjal software suite. While less common today, many historical documents and personal archives contain Anjal-encoded Tamil text.

Characteristics

Anjal uses a phonetic-based keyboard layout and its own character mapping scheme. The encoding was optimized for the Anjal software's specific rendering requirements.

Keyman encoding is associated with the Keyman keyboard software, which provides phonetic Tamil input capabilities.

History

Keyman was developed by SIL International to enable typing in various languages including Tamil, using intuitive phonetic keyboard layouts.

Usage

Keyman encoding might be found in documents created using Keyman keyboard software before direct Unicode output was standard.

Converting between Anjal and Keyman allows you to work with documents across different systems and applications that use these encodings.

For best results, we recommend converting legacy encodings to Unicode first, which provides universal compatibility and can then be converted to any other format as needed.