Boomi to TSCII Converter

Boomi is a Tamil font encoding named after the Tamil word for 'Earth', designed for desktop publishing applications.

History

Boomi was created for the Tamil publishing industry, particularly for use with desktop publishing software in the 1990s when professional Tamil typography required specialized fonts.

Usage

Boomi encoding is found in published materials, books, and magazines from Tamil publishers who used Boomi fonts for typesetting.

Characteristics

Boomi includes extended character sets for typographic symbols and provides good glyph coverage for professional publishing needs.

TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange) is a standardized 8-bit encoding scheme for Tamil, developed by the Tamil Internet community as an alternative to proprietary encodings.

History

TSCII was developed in 1999 by a group of Tamil computing enthusiasts and standardized through community consensus. It was designed as an open standard to facilitate Tamil computing before Unicode became widely supported.

Usage

TSCII was popular for email communication, early Tamil websites, and document exchange in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Many Tamil e-books and online libraries still contain TSCII-encoded content.

Converting between Boomi and TSCII 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.