Sometimes technology can be frustrating. When I was trying to read some malayalam blogs, that’s exactly what happened.
While some of the showed fonts automatically, some of them simply won’t show up, rather show me only the title in malayalam with garbled text on the browser (I’m on Firefox and Mac OS X).
Doing some Googling, and after installing numerous “tweaks” and “emulators” found this wicked browser that will automatically detect the font (malayalam, chinese and the huge list they have) and display perfectly.
It’s called iCab and you can download it from here. It’s a German website so I guess, it’s made by Germans. Must salute them!
It’s free with a nagging screen as a shareware, but I bought it for USD 25, and I think it is completely worth that money.
Just wondering, who could be the mallu guy who might have helped on this project?
this is not satisfactory .,… which version of firefox ? ff3 renders Malayalam better
That’s great Dinu, so just upgrading to FF3 should do the trick ? Interesting…
@dinu
The rules may be different on a Mac system.
In linux, I had to install the Anjali Old Libi font.
Binny I even tried that I installed two fonts…well they were intended for Windows so they wont work. I can opt for malayalam from the font settings but it wont show up on the browser just the page title would appear. But this browser works like a charm.
@ Mani
for me, Malayalam was displaying like this and after ff3, it worked perfect …….. but as Binny said, it was on fedora, and a windows x machines
Firefox does like this [Newer].But it is not satisfactory. Anybody know about any browser that solves malayalam font problem with blogs ? Please let me know in macprgrmr@gmail.com
Try iCab Nouf. It should solve the problem.