The material on this website was created using a Unicode compliant Malayalam font. Unicode is a 16-bit encoding standard that allows all characters of every major language in the world to be represented. Unicode is platform independent, meaning if you typed something in Windows, it would appear the same way on a Macintosh machine. Most modern systems have built-in Unicode support and often require nothing more than a Unicode compliant font for any particular language.

If you can see the following sentence, then your computer should have no problems viewing this site:
ഒരു കുടുംബമാണ് മംഗലാട്ട് (Oru Kudumbamanu Mangalat.)

If you cannot view the sentence above, try changing the font encoding to "UTF-8" in your browser. Most users should find this option by going to View > Encoding.

If you still are not able to view the sentence above, please try following the suggestions for your particular operating system:

Enabling support for Indian languages (Indic) on your computer

Windows XP/Vista:
Windows XP/Vista has inbuilt Indian languages features. If you enable these features, you will be able to view the Malayalam pages much better. You must have at least 10 MB of free hard disk space and the Installation Disk of Windows ready, before starting. Please close any open programs.

  1. Go to Control Panel (from the “Start” button)
  2. Go to Regional and Language Options
  3. Click the “Languages” tab
  4. Check (click) the line marked “Install files for complex scripts and right to left languages (including Thai)”. When you check this line, a new window will appear, which will give a list of languages that will be installed. This list will include ‘Indic’. It will ‘warn’ you that you need at least 10 MB of hard disk space. Click OK to close this window. Then click OK on the Regional and Languages Options window. You will be asked to restart your computer.

You should be able to view the Malayalam text on this site now.

Windows 2000
Enable support for Indian languages on your computer. Windows 2000 has inbuilt Indian languages features. If you enable these features, you will be able to view the Malayalam pages much better.

  1. Go to Settings (Start Button)
  2. Go to Control Panel
  3. Go to Regional Options
  4. In "Language settings for the system" (in the first "General" tab), select Indic.
  5. Click Ok

You should be able to view the Malayalam text on this site now.

Download Malyalam Font

You need to get a unicode font installed on your computer to read Malayalam content on this site. Here is a step-by-step guide to download and install a Malayalam unicode font.

1. CLICK HERE to download the Malayalam unicode font Meera.ttf to your computer.
2. Go to the Fonts folder: Control Panel> Fonts
3. Then to add font, go to: File> Install New Font. Then show the path of the Anjali.ttf, that you downloaded earlier.
INTERNET EXPLORER USERS
4. Start Internet Explorer
5. Go to: Tools> Internet Options> Fonts> Select Malayalam in Language Script> Select Anjali Old Lipi in Webpage Font
6. Click OK and OK.
MOZILLA FIREFOX USERS
4. Start Mozilla Firefox
5. Go to: Tools> Options> Content> Select Anjali Old Lipi in Fonts & Colors
6. Click OK

Now you can read the Malayalam script on this site.