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by pontiacred 5376 days ago
Has anyone been able to get indic fonts to work on Ubuntu? I tried a while ago to get Punjabi language sites to work but I kept running into problems. They work fine on windows and mac. I think http://www.ajitjalandhar.com/20110928/ didn't work last time I gave it a shot.
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jmillikin 5376 days ago
That site seems to be using two different methods to represent indic text.

The blue bar on top, and the poll on the left, are displayed as garbage. Looking in the source, they are using iso-8859-1 encoding, with a font named "Satluj" which maps extended ASCII characters to (presumably) indic characters.

The rest of the site, including the central column of text (new articles?) renders correctly in Ubuntu. I've not done anything special to install middle-Asian fonts, as far as I know.

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train_robber 5376 days ago
Malayalam renders perfectly on Firefox (7.0) for me on Ubuntu (11.04). Though I have found some minor glitches on Chromium (13.0).
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