Questions tagged [tamil]

This tag can be used in questions that relate to encoding standards, fonts, and the readability of the Tamil language.

This tag can be used in questions that relate to encoding standards, fonts, and the readability of the Tamil language.

Tamil also spelt Thamizh is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka.

It has official status in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Tamil is also an official and national language of Sri Lanka and one of the official languages of Singapore

Read more about Tamil language wiki.

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Cannot display Tamil correctly in generated PDF

Currently we are using Aspose.NET library to generate excel and export to PDF. The pdf consists of multiple language such as English, Chinese and Tamil. For English and Chinese it work fine but for Tamil is having spelling issue. For example the…
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How to implement tamil font for my website?

I have developed the website in codeigniter, now i want to add tamil fonts in my website . Type the description in tamil, and add the description value into the description table desc colum and retrieve the desc values and display that tamil…
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Tamil Font in Android 2.3.3

I searched a lot but could find a good tamil font file to use in my android app. I think from Android 4.0 tamil font is automatically supported. But I need to port my application to BlackBerry PlayBook as well. So i am forced to use Android 2.3.3…
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Unable to print Tamil character in Python

I am trying to use Tamil languge in Python. But ran into difficulties. Here is my code U=u'\u0B83' print U This throws the error, UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0b83' in position 0 : ordinal not in range(128) My…
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Convert non english characters into Unicode (UTF-8)

I copied large amount of text from another system to my PC. When I viewed the text in my PC, it looked weird. So I copied all the fonts from the other PC and installed them in mine too. Now the text looks okay, but actually it seems that is not in…
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Is there any Tamil virtual keyboard for react web application?

Is there any Tamil virtual keyboard for react web application, I tried simple-Keyboard and virtual-keyboard package but can't find Tamil language in it. Any suggestion for Tamil virtual keyboard?
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Python PIL imagedraw tamil font not displayed in a aesthetically proper manner

I am writing a small program in python using PIL library to write a tamil text on the screen using tamil fonts. However, the certain letters in tamil font are not displayed properly. Some characters are not aesthetically printed on image like பி,…
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Incorrect tamil characters in a page outside wordpress

I have a site using tamil language. I have no problem with displaying tamil characters inside wordpress. I have created a page outside wordpress in which i embed wordpress functions by using wp-load.php however, it displays incorrect tamil…
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Why my android studio doesn't support typing tamil language?

I am new to android studio. I am trying to create an application with localisation(Tamil). When I paste my Tamil language into android editor the font is not appearing as it should. Here is the Screen shot of my android studio Already surfed lot…
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Other language word/string split/manipulation issue

Highlight the text searched scenario: Ex: If I have a word RK and 'r' is searched, I have to highlight first occurance of 'r' i.e., RK. In the background it is like < b >R< /b >K. Similarly I have to highlight ம in மொ. Hence I am trying to find the…
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Tamil Language (தமிழ்) text was not displaying properly in Android mobile app using Firemonkey

I'm using Delphi 10.1 for developing android mobile application and I have tried to display Tamil language (தமிழ்) texts in TLabel and TComboBox and it was properly in windows application but it was not displaying properly in android mobile app and…
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Android: custom font in WebView using CSS issue

I'm currently developing an app using web view. I created some html files along with images and css (inside html file). When I put the files into assests folder the custom font is not loading. Without anychange i put it on server and accessed via…
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Java Classname with unicode character not Running

I'm Just trying to test Java Unicode support. I found that Java supports Unicode characters in their Class Names. But when I tried to use Unicode fonts It is not compiling. Below is the code It Throws below error during Compilation The character…
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How to use Google transliterate API in Angular 4/5?

How to use the Google Transliterate API in angular 4/5 ? Kindly check the below mentioned code. google.load("elements", "1", { packages: "transliteration" }); function onLoad() { var options = { sourceLanguage: …
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Installing a new font in Android Emulator

I'm trying to install a new font for my emulator. Currently android doesn't support "Tamil" but rooted phones do have partial support with extra hic ups. I wanna try and install a tamil font in my emulator. so I went to font directory under android…
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