Anjal to Thanthy 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 While less common today, many historical documents and personal archives contain Anjal-encoded Tamil text.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.

Thanthy encoding was developed for Tamil text processing with specific focus on clarity and readability.

History

Thanthy emerged from efforts to create Tamil computing solutions that prioritized visual clarity and ease of reading on early computer displays.

Usage

Thanthy encoding is found in documents and applications that prioritized text legibility over other considerations.

Converting between Anjal and Thanthy 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.