TAB to Anjal-1 Converter

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.

Characteristics

TAB encoding allocates specific byte ranges for Tamil characters while preserving standard ASCII for English, enabling true bilingual text processing.

Anjal-1 is a variant of the Anjal encoding with slight modifications to character mappings, used in specific versions of Anjal software.

History

Anjal-1 emerged as the Anjal software evolved, introducing minor changes to improve compatibility and address character mapping issues found in the original Anjal encoding.

Usage

Anjal-1 encoded documents are typically found in archives from users who upgraded their Anjal software. Converting to Unicode ensures these documents remain accessible.

Converting between TAB and Anjal-1 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.