If you want to view http://www.manoramaonline.com in firefox, the steps to accomplish this is very easy. These steps work in linux and in windows.
First you want to install the Manorama font. http://geocities.com/peringz/fonts/manorama.zip
For Linux users, make sure you have true type font support. In Debian this is fairly easy by installing the right packages. Most stock linux distro should come with all the support you need out of the box. On Debian if you install ttf-malayalam-fonts package, it provides a nice place to store the Manorama.ttf file.
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-malayalam-fonts/ is where I put my font file.
In windows XP you can use, c:\WINDOWS\Fonts . I'm pretty sure this is the directory for other versions of windows as well.
Next you need to install an extension for AutoCharacterCoding switching for Malayalam in Firebird/Mozilla from http://quicktools.mozdev.org. That's it. Restart firefox and try out http://www.manoramaonline.com. There's a delay from when it initially loads the page and then switches the character coding, but this is only a small annoyance for me. Let me know if you kids come across any issues. Later.
UPDATE: Just use the Padma extension.
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Hi Cyril,
Thanks for the tip. I wanted it so badly. But as always ia m not able to install any of firefox extensions. The AutoCharacterencoding.xpi is lying on my harddidk and firefox is not even looking at it. Please advice.
Regards,
JE.
Go to http://quicktools.mozdev.org/ and click on the link for the AutoCharacterCoding XPI. This should show a bar at the top of the browser to allow quicktools.mozdev.org as site you trust for extensions. You can even try the *.mozdev.org catch all. Other than that being the possible issue.. I'm not sure why this extension won't install for you. Try one of the mozilla forums.. Good luck.
Hello,
If possible, could please shed some light on this.
Why does this site displays fine on IE *without* installing the font when it fails in other browsers such as Opera and FF.
I haven't checked out this post in a while, but I just wanted to post an update on the this font issue. All you have to do now is install the Padma extension for Firefox.
Hi all , I tried to install AutoCharacterencoding.xpi but while installing i am getting a message
that ff cant install the xpi.
Reason quoted is
"
because: Install script not found
-204
"
Please help,
Anish
i cant read manorama in ubuntu,how i can read it?
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