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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Tamil fonts not displayed properly in browsers.. in linux..

Once i came to know about tamil lyricist Arivumathi's blog.  So, i open it in my browser but tamil fonts are not shown properly.  The fonts are either like a rectangle or torn.  I try to see the blogpost in tamil properly, and atlast i got the following solution..

The solution is removing the Freesans, Freeserif fonts from your linux system(BOSS, ubuntu, all debian derived linux).  These fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont directory.  Either remove the fonts by deleting it or copy it to some other place but not in the fonts directory.  Thats all now the blog is shown well in tamil.  the following images are

Tamil blog with tamil font rendering problem
Tamil blog after font problem fixed
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12 comments:

  1. Shamshudeen JJune 25, 2012 at 2:19 AM

    Thanks for this post.

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  2. Sakthi SaravanakumarJune 26, 2012 at 12:28 AM

    Really nice post... and very nice information. Got what i wanted.. :) Thankyou very much...

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  3. kalaivananJuly 27, 2012 at 6:28 AM

    hai

    its nice and very useful to me ..
    kalai..

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  4. KarthikeyanJuly 29, 2012 at 10:12 PM

    Thankyou all... :)

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  5. UnknownSeptember 8, 2012 at 11:25 AM

    It worked well :) Thanks

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  6. KarthikeyanSeptember 20, 2012 at 10:18 AM

    If it works fine to you, & you like this share the post, do +1.. :) Thanks all.

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  7. YogiNovember 13, 2013 at 11:14 PM

    Apparently, I've installed this package on my ubuntu linux 12.04lts and it works fine

    - ttf-tamil-fonts

    Try that solution as well :)

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  8. AnonymousNovember 25, 2013 at 6:06 AM

    Works fine!!!!!!

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  9. TruthMediaJuly 23, 2018 at 9:59 PM

    i find that path but i dont get any folders names freefont
    give me solution to fix this

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  10. AnonymousAugust 5, 2018 at 9:54 PM

    download more hindi fonts from hndifonts.org

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  11. JenniferTNovember 26, 2018 at 12:07 AM

    Thanks for sharing this wonderful blog.we are very thankful for this article.

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