| Feature | MCL Mangai (Legacy) | Marutham (Unicode) | |---------|---------------------|--------------------| | Requires font installation | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | | Searchable on web | ❌ No | ✅ Yes | | Works on mobile | ❌ Rarely | ✅ Yes | | Copy-paste safe | ❌ Garbled | ✅ Perfect | | Email/social media ready | ❌ No | ✅ Yes |

There are three primary methods to perform this conversion. Choose the one that best fits your technical comfort and volume of text.

: You often need a specific .xml converter file for the MCL font series (e.g., MCL-Kannammai or MCL-Mangai).

Both fonts use the same ASCII slots for completely different Tamil characters. Direct copy-pasting breaks the text.