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For Microsoft
Windows users:
If you have Windows XP with the SP2 update,
you already have a working system. The Kartika font which comes with the SP2
update is a decent font. Please do not install the Thoolika font mentioned
below.
The most likely reason why you cannot see
anything on the Malayalam Wikipedia is that you do not have a font that
supports the Malayalam Unicode range. If you can see some letters, but there
are too many errors, you probably have a font with poor support for
Malayalam Unicode. Perhaps the best fonts available are
rachana by K.H.Hussain
Anjali Oldlipi by
kevin
ThoolikaTraditional Unicode font. They work almost perfectly in Windows
95/98, ME, 2000, and XP (especially with Internet Explorer 5 or over).
Please download the fonts by following the above links and install them. To
install, copy the fonts, open "Fonts" from Control Panel and paste the fonts
in the Fonts directory.
Internet
Explorer users:
If you were able to see some letters, you
will need to change the font Internet Explorer uses for showing Malayalam
Unicode. To do this pull down Tools from the menubar in Internet
Explorer and follow Internet Options..., click on Fonts
(button). Choose Malayalam in Language script first, and choose a
Unicode font (AnjaliOlpLipi, Thoolika, Rachana, Karthika etc) in the Web
page font box. Restart Internet Explorer if it doesn't work the first
time around.
Mozilla users:
It seems you need to turn on "Indic"
support in Windows 2000. To do this, go to Control Panel in your computer,
double click on Regional Options. In General Tab, language settings for the
system, check the Indic box and click OK. You may need to restart the
machine after doing this. In Windows XP, go to Control Panel in your
computer, double click Regional and Language Options, select Languages Tab,
under supplemental language support, check the box to install files for
complex script and click OK. (Can somebody please confirm this?). In case
you are still not able to see Malayalam letters properly in Mozilla, you
should select the font Mozilla uses for Unicode by opening from Mozilla's
menu bar Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts. Choose "Fonts for:" as
Unicode and all typefaces as Rachana_w01 or ThoolikaUnicode.
Firefox Users
AnjaliOldlipi works excellent on Firefox. To use it as default font to
display Malayalam and Other Languages [from Tools menu > Options item >
Content tab > Fonts & Colors section > Advanced button > Select "Malayalam"
and set Anjali as font for serif/san-serif/monospace, do the same for Other
Languages also.
For users of
GNU/Linux
Malayalam Fonts are available
here. For installing fonts open your font foder (Open your file browser,
type fonts:/// hit enter) and paste fonts in that folder.
Restart any application that may need to use them. Your browser may need to
set appropriate font(Font
Rachana works fine). Font setting for Firefox browser is available at
Edit->Preference->Content->Advanced.
Font
Raghu renders newly defined
atomic Chillaksharams. You can use
this firefox extension to display newly defined Chillaksharams with
other fonts.
Sometimes you have to update your computer
for better display of Malayalam. For that try tricks given below after login
as a root. If these will not fix the problem please contact
our
Panchayath,
Malayalam-techies or their
irc chat paltform (this
link will work in browser). A wiki related to "Malayalam computing"
is available
here
More info>>
Happy reading...
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