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| Malayalam characters in Internet Explorer |
| Encoding
On the IE5 or above right click the mouse button, choose Encoding in the menu displayed. Then choose: User Defined on the Encoding list. If this option is not seen, choose More. In More list, Choose User Defined.
On the IE4 View menu, choose Fonts then select User Defined.
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| Malayalam font on a Linux system |
Please follow the following steps to install the fonts on your linux machine
Download the font from sightindia.com
Find out the fonts directory for true type X-Window font server.
It may be running as either xfs or xfstt.
Some possible names for the font directoriesmay be: usr/share/fonts or usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
Copy the fonts in the fonts directory.You will need to be Root / Superuser to do this.
Reboot the system.
If you do not have the root permission you may try the following steps:
(This may not work for all versions of linux. You may have to contact the system administrator in that case.)
Create a directory for storing fonts in your login and suppose we call it 'fonts'.
That is the directory path will be $HOME/ fonts
Copy the font in the fonts directory.
Change current directory to $HOME/fonts.
Run ttmkfdir > fonts.dir
Run ttmkfdir > fonts.scale.
These will create 'fonts.scale' and 'fonts.dir' files in the directory.
Now run the following commands .
/usr/X11R6/bin/xset fp+ $HOME/fonts
/usr/X11R6/bin/xset fp rehash
The fonts are installed.
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| Malayalam font on a Windows system |
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