1. Latha To Bamini Converter
2. Unicode To Bamini Colombo
3. Bamini To Unicode Font Converter

Hi Robin, Thanks for your reply. You have very well understood my concern. My question has two parts:. About the Tamil Keyboard – “Suratha Bamini” for MacOS. The keyboard works in few applications and not in others like OmegaT. Whereas the Tamil fonts inbuilt in MacOS viz.

“standard” and “Transliteration” works very well. But, they are not Professional ones. So, why this Suratha Bamini which should be platform independent is not working in some applications?. Tamil font converter: This is about font converter.

Latha To Bamini Converter

I don’t find any Tamil font converter for MacOS. We need to convert fonts from Unicode to Bamini and back. There are many font converters like e-kalappai, Azhaghi, NHM converter for Windows but not for MAC. So, there is a need for a font converter for MacOS. These are my concerns. Regards Samalex. I still suspect that the problem is not with Keyman or with the Suratha Bamini keyboard but rather with the text encodings.

Bamini is not Unicode, so it requires special fonts other than the standard MacOS ones. It may be that some applications such as OmegaT won’t use those special fonts. In that case it looks like the keyboard is not working - however the problem is that the Bamini fonts are not Unicode.

There is nothing that can be done in the keyboard or Keyman to fix this. As for a Bamini Unicode font converter for MacOS: We don’t write or support font converters. There are commercial apps that will do that for MacOS. You can also find someone who uses Windows and have them convert the font for you using the converters available on that platform. I’d suggest that you contact the creators of Bamini fonts and request that they convert their fonts to Unicode.

Hi Victor, In Tamil there are various keyboard styles. MacOS inbuilt font styles are (a) Standard (Tamil 99) and (b) Transliteration. Both these styles are not professional ones.

That is why we download keyman – Suratha-Bamini. When we use this, Suratha-Bamini, we type in Unicode fonts in Bamini style.

This Unicode works in many applications like MS-office with some issues, (I’ll explain this issue later), but the font style does not work in OmegaT (Translation tool), instead, English letters appear. But the Mac inbuilt font styles (mentioned above) work well in the same application. So, the problems is with Keman – Suratha-Bamini and not with OmegaT.

Although the Suratha Bamini keyboard works in MS-Office, there is a small issue. To type Certain letters in Tamil, we need to press three characters like ”கௌ”. This is a single letter in Tamil we need to press three letters ‘nfs’. But, these kind of “three press letters” do not appear in MacOS- MS-office. This has to be rectified. Hope, I have made it clear to you.

Unicode To Bamini Colombo

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Bamini To Unicode Font Converter

For Windows 7 / Vista users: - Right-click the Bamini font file(s) and choose 'Install'. For users of the previous Windows versions: - Copy Bamini font & pest into a default Windows font folder (usually C: WINDOWS FONTS or C: WINNT FONTS) For Mac users: Mac OS X 10.3 or above (including the FontBook) - Double-click Bamini font file and hit 'Install font' button at the bottom of the preview. Mac OS X - Either copy the Bamini font file(s) to /Library/Fonts (for all users), or to /Users/Yourusername/Library/Fonts (for you only). Mac OS 9 or earlier - You have to convert the Bamini font file(s) you have downloaded. Drag the font suitcases into the System folder. The system will propose you to add them to the Fonts folder For Linux users: - Copy the Bamini font file(s) to /USR/SHARE/FONTS.