Indoweb to Anjal Converter

Indoweb encoding was designed for early Tamil websites and web-based applications before Unicode web support became standard.

History

Indoweb was created in the late 1990s to enable Tamil content on the early World Wide Web when browsers lacked proper Unicode support.

Usage

Indoweb encoding is found on older Tamil websites and in web archives from the early internet era. Many sites have since migrated to Unicode.

Characteristics

Indoweb uses ASCII-based encoding that could be transmitted over HTTP without encoding issues common in that era.

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 While less common today, many historical documents and personal archives contain Anjal-encoded Tamil text.

Converting between Indoweb and Anjal 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.