TSCII to Dinakaran Converter

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.

Characteristics

TSCII uses the upper half of the 8-bit character space (128-255) for Tamil characters while keeping ASCII intact. This allows mixing of English and Tamil text without encoding conflicts.

Dinakaran encoding was developed for the Dinakaran newspaper, one of the leading Tamil daily newspapers.

History

The Dinakaran newspaper developed its own encoding system to meet the demanding requirements of daily newspaper production and typesetting in the pre-Unicode era.

Usage

Dinakaran encoding is primarily found in the newspaper's digital archives and related publications. The encoding was specifically optimized for their production workflow.

Converting between TSCII and Dinakaran 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.