Indoweb to TAB 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.

TAB (Tamil Bilingual) encoding was developed for bilingual Tamil-English computing, allowing seamless mixing of both scripts in a single document.

History

TAB encoding was created in the early 1990s to address the need for bilingual document creation in Tamil Nadu's government and educational sectors where both Tamil and English are official languages.

Usage

TAB encoding was used in government offices, educational institutions, and businesses that required frequent Tamil-English document creation. Legacy systems may still contain TAB-encoded files.

Converting between Indoweb and TAB 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.