Amharic Fonts

Both ANSI and UTF-8 are character encoding formats. ANSI is a Microsoft-specific standard mainly used to encode Latin alphabets, whereas UTF-8 is an implementation of Unicode that supports more than 128,000 characters.

Unicode is a universal character encoding standard. It defines how individual characters are represented in web pages, text files, and documents.

There are different types of Unicode encoding, with UTF-8 and UTF-16 being the most common. UTF-8 is widely used on the web and is the default encoding standard in many software programs.

UTF-8 encoding can use up to four bytes to represent a character. For English letters, UTF-8 uses one byte. European (Latin), Hebrew, and Arabic characters typically use two bytes. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other Asian characters use three bytes, while certain special symbols may require four bytes.

To do this you need to first download ANSI fonts from one the link above. After this, you can open any text editor such as Microsoft Word, select Amharic font you have downloaded earlier and start typing. Typing in Amharic can be difficult using a Roman keyboard. To help you with the mapping of Amharic letters we have a keyboard layout. You can download this by visiting this link.