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by 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.