Tamil is an abugida. Consonants have inherent vowels. When a vowel sign (maathra) is added, or when consonants join (e.g., க்ஷ ), legacy fonts handle this in one of two ways:
The MCL Mangai to Marutham font converter has a wide range of applications across various industries, including:
Check the rendering of the three-dot character after conversion, as its mapping varied wildly across older MCL font versions. The Ultimate Recommendation: Convert to Unicode
⟶ Cause: Fonts lacking specific Tamil or Sanskrit characters. Solution: Update to the latest version of the Marutham font, which includes the Tamil Unicode set.
Unlike simple one-to-one replacements, a good converter must handle:
Set to MCL (or MCL Kannamai if Mangai is not listed, as they often share encoding). Set "To this font encoding" to Unicode .