Showing posts with label font rendering problem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label font rendering problem. Show all posts

Monday, August 6, 2012

How to view tamil(or any regional language) websites, blogspots in android phones without installing fonts?

1. Install opera mini from google play
2. Launch the opera mini browser in your mobile
3. In the address bar type "opera:config" [without quotes]
4. Scroll to the end of the page & search for "use bitmap font for complex scripts" and enable(yes) it.

Thats all... :) now open any tamil web page that will be looks properly.

Note:
1. Remember with this method you can only view the web pages in tamil(or any other language) and you can't write.  But one is not needed to install any fonts.
2. With this method, actually the browser shows the full web page as a bitmap image.  So, regardless of language all the webpages will be rendered properly.


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