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

[Gora Mohanty]

--- Carthik Sharma <carthik at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> This webpage works fine here on Dapper, with the stock Firefox. Do
> you have a reference site (to check my browser) for Malayalam that
> I can use? Is http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/demos/unicode_testview.html
> a good one to use?
[...]

I am afraid that site is rather outdated, and does a poor job with
Oriya, for example. Baishampayan has already pointed out problems
with Bengali.

> > (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.
> 
> I have the malayalam language fonts installed. In fact, I have been
> trying with around 15 fonts installed, in addition to those installed
> by the Ubuntu language pack.  I wasn't playing around, Gora, was
> trying to help.
> 
> A little difference in attitude can make a big difference in results.

I apologize for my choice of words. It can be quite frustrating to try
to solve these problems, and it did seem like you were trying various
things without a systematic plan. Having too many fonts might actually
be more of a problem, as depending on how they were installed, you
might be seeing the effects of a font that only partially supports
Malayalam. Let us try to do things in order, and see if we can fix the
problem. I am replying separately to your other message.

Regards,
Gora



		
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