[ubuntu-in] Typing and more importantly reading in Malayalam

[Gora Mohanty]

--- Carthik Sharma <carthik at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> I tried the same on Firefox 1.0.7 at home, on breezy, with firefox
> from the Ubuntu repository, and am yet to find uniformity or
> consistency in the Rosetta translations that exist.

Well, even that Firefox is probably not Indic-enabled.

> It seems to depend on the font (usually some ttf font) that was used
> by the translator. 
[...]

This cannot be the case with proper Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. What
you are seeing is probably different bugs with Indic rendering in
different versions of the browser. Do the following: (a) get a proper
Indic-enabled browser. Searching Google turns up this site:
http://hpnadig.net/topics/tools-and-software/firefox. Else, upgrade
to Dapper. You can check that the browser is working properly by
visiting, e.g., the BBC Hindi site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/.
(b) make sure you have a proper Malayalam font. See
http://indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicFontsList#Malayalam. Just
playing around with defoma will not help.

Regards,
Gora



		
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