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Malayalam

U+0D00 – U+0D7F   (3328–3455)

The Malayalam script is used for the Malayalam language, which belongs to the Dravidian group and is the majority language of the Indian State of Kerala. You can see some Unicode Malayalam on Xenotype’s Malayalam Unicode Sample page.

The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

Microsoft Windows incorporates support for Malayalam Unicode from Windows XP SP2 onwards. For users of Macintosh OS X 10.2, a commercial Malayalam Language Kit with a Unicode font and 2 keyboard layouts is available from XenoType Technologies.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Akshar Unicode, AnjaliOldLipi, Arial Unicode MS, Code2000, Dyuthi, Free Idg Serif, Free Serif, JanaMalayalam, Kalyani, Kartika, Karumbi, Keli, malayalam, MalOtf, Meera, ML-NILA01, ML-NILA02, ML-NILA03, ML-NILA04, Rachana, RaghuMalayalam, Samyak, Samyak Malayalam, Saraswati5, Sun-ExtA, suruma, ThoolikaTraditionalUnicode and ThoolikaUnicode.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0D00.pdf.

Copyright © 1999–2014 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 7.0.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2014 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 2014.

Created 3rd February 1999 – Last updated 28th October 2014