[smc-discuss] Re: Reading Malayalam in Redhat Linux

[Anivar Aravind]

Praveen wrote:
> Hi Ani, my problem is that my browser (firefox) is not render Malayalam
> unicode correctly. At the very first I was not able to read a single
> character (It displayed as small boxes),  I  check  something in the
> net,  did  something in the terminal (I dont know what i did),   install
> anjali old lipi,  and  use  smc-mgl.0.0.2.tar.gz, Now I can read
> Malayalam somehow, but the display is very poor, looks like wrote in a
> Malayalam typewritter ;-). Title bar of firefox displays almost fine,
> including a symbol like "lightening conductor" after 'chills'. I know
> nothing about linux, so I believe this is my best explanation.

Here the issue is your firefox is not pango enabled. pango is the
rendering engine which helps to display malayalam characters properly.
And your pango is too old.

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