Bamini to Murasoli Converter

Bamini is one of the most widely used Tamil font encodings, particularly popular in Sri Lanka and among the Tamil diaspora. It uses ASCII character positions to represent Tamil characters.

History

Bamini was developed in the early 1990s as a practical solution for typing Tamil on computers before Unicode support became widespread. It became the de facto standard for Tamil publishing in Sri Lanka and was extensively used in newspapers, books, and official documents.

Usage

Bamini encoding is still found in legacy documents, older websites, and archival materials. Many Tamil newspapers and publishers in Sri Lanka continue to maintain Bamini-encoded archives. Converting to Unicode is essential for modern accessibility.

Characteristics

Bamini maps Tamil characters to the ASCII range (32-127), using lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols to represent Tamil script. It requires the Bamini font to be installed for proper display.

Murasoli encoding was developed for the Murasoli newspaper, the official organ of the DMK political party in Tamil Nadu.

History

Murasoli newspaper, founded in 1942, developed its encoding system when computerizing their publishing operations to maintain consistency with their print editions.

Usage

Murasoli encoding is used in the newspaper's archives and related political publications. It represents an important part of Tamil political documentation.

Converting between Bamini and Murasoli 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.