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Convert Malayalam font to unicode

Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:33 am
by krishnik
Hi,

I trying to copy paste contents of MS-word document which is in ML-TTKarthika font (a font used to type Malayalam language) to a HTMl editor. I would like to convert the font to utf8 format and save in a database.

I have tried functions like utf8_encode and mb_convert_encoding to convert the font. but its notworking.
Do ihave to use a mapping file to convert font to Malayalam unicode

I have found a site which provides an API service to convert the font [http://smc.org.in/silpa/ASCII2Unicode] But it says that "Silpa services can be used from any programming language which has an RPC implementation." can i access this service using PHP.

Thanks
Nikhil

Re: Convert Malayalam font to unicode

Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 2:58 am
by vinumon
Hai

please change
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
to
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Re: Convert Malayalam font to unicode

Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 8:28 am
by krishnik
hi vinumon,

Thank you for the reply. but I have already tried the this.
I think the ML-TTKarthika is not a unicode font unlike Meera, which is used by Mathrubhumi. I can directly copy and pasted the content from mathrubhumi to a ms-word doc.
But if copy and paste the content from deepika which uses ML-TTKarthika all you get is junk characters.

In aksharangal.com there is an option to convert Ml-TTKarthika to unicode. I'm looking for something like that.

Thanks
Nikhil