Several specialized tools facilitate this "to-and-fro" conversion:
The resulting text will be in the Marutham encoding, which will appear correctly when you apply the "Marutham" font in software like MS Word or Photoshop. mcl mangai to marutham font converter
| Feature | MCL Mangai | Marutham (Legacy) | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | Proprietary, 8-bit / glyph-index encoding | TAB-BM standard (Thamizh Browser Bitmap) | | Era | Late 1990s – early 2000s | Early 2000s – mid 2000s | | Compatibility | Specific to MCL (Mangai Computer Library) | Supported by many legacy Tamil apps & web pages | | Unicode Relation | No mapping; requires glyph-to-character conversion | Partial mapping; often a stepping stone to Unicode | requires glyph-to-character conversion | Partial mapping