In 1978 the government of Tamil Nadu ordered the replacement of symbols on the left side of the table (shown in the VaigaiAA typeface) by symbols on the right (shown in Noto Sans, a modern unicode typeface).
The order included two additional substitutions which are not shown here because the public did not adopt them.
A list of changes to the Tamil script which were ordered by the Tamil Nadu government in 1978.
This table shows how to convert from VaigaiAA, a Tamil typeface published in 1988, to modern Unicode.
Masters dissertation, 2007, University of Reading.
Doctoral dissertation, 2019, Trinity College, Dublin.
This page was first published on March 29, 2024 and last revised on March 29, 2024.