[OS X TeX] Malayalam and other Indian languages on Mac

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On 04/07/2012 15:05, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> TeXShop doesn't have a problem with Unicode! However, the default encoding when you first open it is MacOSRoman. 
You can change the default encoding in TeXshop->Preferences->Source->Encoding.
You can also simply use the line
> 
> % !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> 
> near the top of your source file to tell TeXShop to save the file in UTF-8 the first time you save it. 
It will also be used to read the file by TeXShop when you re-open the file.

Thank you! That was obviously my mistake. It worked. a million Thanks to all,
who helped. All I need to do now is to solve the problem with ligatures, which I
shall solve on my side.
Once again thanks to all

cheers
suren