Marutham is another widely recognized legacy font format in the Tamil printing industry. It shares a similar monolingual keyboard layout philosophy with Mangai but may feature slight variations in character mapping, glyph styles, and tracking. The Core Problem: Digital Compatibility
| Problem | Solution | |---------|----------| | Converted text shows boxes | Your system lacks a Tamil Unicode font. Install Noto Sans Tamil or Marutham . | | Some characters remain garbled | The original file mixed MCL Mangai with another font (e.g., MCL Bharathi). Convert each font separately. | | Line breaks lost after conversion | Use a converter with “Preserve formatting” option. | | Special symbols (₹, @, #) misplaced | These are not part of Tamil encoding; retype them manually. | mcl mangai to marutham font converter