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Firefox messes up Tamil

24 Aug

One of my friends, Vijay, blogs in Tamil (my Mother Tongue). I just noticed that Firefox messes up the letters in Tamil. Internet Explorer renders it properly. The strange thing is that Firefox does show Tamil characters but it is all muddled up.

Firefox Rendering Tamil

Tamil Blog in Firefox

Internet Explorer Rendering Tamil

Tamil Blog in Internet Explorer

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10 Comments

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  1. ohman

    August 25, 2005 at 12:27 AM

    cant read Tamil. so not sure what the problem is in pictures you posted. all looks same to me :)

    but for true Unicode support, you should have language support for Tamil installed on your system.
    if Windows, then you should find it in Control Panel->Regional language support.

     

  2. Aravind

    August 25, 2005 at 10:31 AM

    hi,
    Even i found this problem and tried to solve but in vain.Installing fonts and adding them to the about.config Tamil section did help but one cant keep doing it for all the websites coz every site has its own font.If you find a solution do let me know .

    Regards,
    Aravind.

     

  3. murali

    August 26, 2005 at 5:18 PM

    Hello Vasanth

    If your friend blog uses unicode tamil then firefox should show it fine as long as it does not use justify code in them and after you have installed the regional fonts.

    check thamizmanam.com for more details.

    Murali

     

  4. Vasanth

    August 29, 2005 at 9:11 AM

    Murali,

    I will check with my friend about this. Thanks.

     

  5. pandian

    December 31, 2005 at 6:54 AM

    Hi Vasanth,
    First of all you should have enabled Indic Support in your Win2000+ machines. Then only all softwares will be able render tamil and other indian languages properly. I think it is there in add or remove programs. check it. youi may need installation CD to copy those files.

    Though Internet explorer renders it beautifully, other MS products like MSoffice etc wont work without enabling facility.

    Dont blame Firefox.. It works really fine, (universal truth), it is better than IE (my experience).

    -p.

     

  6. Vasanth

    January 2, 2006 at 7:00 AM

    pandian,

    You might be right. But the blog I mentioned is in Unicode. This, I think, should be displayed properly even with out the Indic Support. That is why Internet Explorer shows it correctly. The other software you mention may not be Unicode compliant.

     

  7. Sam Jam

    February 10, 2006 at 11:46 PM

    Take a look at this.

    http://blacksapphire.com/firefox-rtl/

    Looks like this won’t be fixed till early 2007.

     

  8. Vasanth

    February 12, 2006 at 6:05 PM

    Sam Jam,

    Thanks for the link. I will take a look at it.

     

  9. Vinay Lohar

    March 17, 2006 at 5:25 AM

    Friends, the problem with such fonts is lack of support. Several computers fail to show such fonts. The internet explorer is more friendly with such fonts than the firefox.

    Moreover the firefox is not as user friendly as the I.E.6 or Netscape.

     

  10. Vasanth

    March 17, 2006 at 6:43 AM

    Yes, geeks like Firefox for its extensibility and the regular users Internet Explorer for its simplicity. :-)