Libi to TSCII Converter

Libi is a Tamil font encoding developed for general-purpose Tamil word processing and document creation.

History

Libi encoding was created as part of efforts to provide accessible Tamil computing tools for everyday users in the 1990s.

Usage

Libi encoding is found in personal documents, letters, and general correspondence created with Libi-compatible software.

Characteristics

Libi provides a straightforward character mapping suitable for basic Tamil text creation and editing.

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 Libi 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.