If you are facing problem
in reading KeralaOnLive.com, please go through the instructions
below. This should be able to solve your problems with
font. Still, if you face problem, please click
here to download the font
Still, if you face any font problem, feel free to contact
us through the feedback section |
Weird characters
instead of Malayalam
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Check your
browser version. Browsers that can view KeralaOnLive.com
without downloading fonts are: Netscape 4.03 or above(on
any operating system except Linux), Internet Explorer
4.0 or above for Windows, AOL 4.0 or above for Windows
and iCab for Macintosh.
Move to a blank page, then delete the browser cache(s).
In Netscape, goto Preferences in Edit menu and choose
Cache in Advanced. Click on Clear Memory Cache and then
Clear Disk Cache on the right hand side of screen to
clear the cache.
In IE, goto Internet Options in
Tool menu and click on the Clear History button to clear
the cache.
Now, force the KeralaOnLive.com
page to reload by holding down the Shift key while clicking
the Reload or Refresh button.
If you have browser versions earlier to the above specified,
please either download the latest version of your browser
or download the font from KeralaOnLive.com to read the
news in Malayalam. |
| Malayalam characters
in Netscape |
| Check your
browser version. You need Netscape 4.03 or higher to
view dynamic fonts.
Check the dynamic fonts option
in Netscape. Open the Edit menu, and choose Preferences.
If Appearance has a plus sign (+) next to it, click
the + Under Appearance, choose Fonts Make sure this
box is checked: Use document specified fonts, including
dynamic fonts.
Force the page to reload by holding
down the Shift key while clicking the Reload or Refresh
button.
Move to any other blank page, then
delete the Netscape caches ( as specified in Problem
1). Re-load the KeralaOnlive.com page.
Encoding
On the Netscape View menu, choose
Character Set/Encoding. Then Choose User Defined.
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| Malayalam characters
in Internet Explorer |
Check your
browser version. You need Internet Explorer 4.0 for
Windows or higher to view dynamic fonts.Dynamic fonts
in Internet Explorer are supported only under Windows,
Dynamic fonts are not supported in Internet Explorer
for other operating systems.
Force the page to reload by holding
down the Shift key while clicking the Reload or Refresh
button.
Check the Security setting in Internet
Explorer. In IE, goto Internet Options in Tool menu
and click on the Security tab in the new screen. Set
security to Medium to allow the WebFont player to download
for the first time.
If you have earlier versions of
Internet Explorer (below 4.0), please either download
the latest version of Internet Explorer or download
the font from KeralaOnLive to read the news in Malayalam.
Also goto Tools -> Internet
options -> General -> Accessibility -> Formatting
and remove check mark in Ignore font styles specified
on web pages and refresh the page.
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. |
| I see dots and lines
instead of Malayalam fonts. |
| Your Netscape browser
has probably run out of memory resources. Close your Netscape
browser, then re-open it. Also, make sure you have the
latest release from Netscape (above 4.03). |
| Why is there a White
Fringe around the fonts when browsing Netscape? |
This problem is not in the font. It is
in the dynamic font displayer used by Netscape. It should
have been fixed in Netscape browser versions 4.05 and
4.07, but is back in Netscape 4.5
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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 KeralaOnLive.com.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.
In the Netscape/Mozilla window go to
edit->preferences-> fonts and define the encoding
to be 'User-Defined'.
Then select View->Character Set->User-Defined. |
| Malayalam font in Mozilla
Firebird/Firefox |
Please follow the
below steps to install the fonts
After downloading, please goto View menu, point Character
Coding and then select Western (ISO-8859-1) to get proper
fonts.
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Instructions to download
Font
- Click
here to save the font file
- Save the font file to Fonts
folder in Windows/Winnt folder in C drive in your
system.
- Restart your computer
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