How to install ttf font for Mozilla

[amarg]

Hi,

I am running SuSe 9.2 With min installation.
I am using the mozilla for the web browser.
Web pages with other languages like (HINDI) is not readable.
From windows these pages works fine. What should I do
to make it readable from my Linux.

Thanks,
Amar

 

[flugh]

My only suggestion is to check the fonts you have installed to ensure there are some for all the languages you expect to be reading. They are typically in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*. If there aren't any promising looking fonts there, Suse (being a big, professional type distro), probably has some packaged up and available.

Sorry. I can only speak and read English, so multilanguages and internationalization just haven't come up in my work yet. The most I do is 'export LOCALE=C' to get mc to look 'normal' during ssh sessions

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JBR

 

[flugh]

So, after I posted, I read the subject and realized you already know it's a font problem. Sorry! I did the google thing and found a couple interesting links.

This one is IndLinux, with some downloadable live images. Some research could be had there, maybe even find you like the distro better:

http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/Downloads

These site has some fonts available. May be just what you need:

http://www.indictrans.org/

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JBR

 

[amarg]

Hi,

I think, I have to give some more details about my problem.
Here I am trying to read web pages which are not in english.
On that page ttf font a aviable for download. I thing to see
the page from Mozilla under linux I have to install this TTF
font. Now please guide me How I can install TTF font for Mozilla.

Thanks,
Amar

 

[zeland]

Technically you add fonts to the font server, xfs. Not too sure about SuSe, but RedHat and Fedora have a folder, /usr/share/fonts that stores additional fonts for xfs. What you may need to do is create an additional folder (maybe called hindi_fonts) under /usr/share/fonts and copy your fonts there. change into that dir and issue the command ttmkfdir, mkfontdir and chkfontpath -a /usr/share/fonts/hindi_fonts. If everything is well, restart xfs by doing /etc/init.d/xfs restart. In the event you don't have chkfontpath utility on SuSe, edit the file /etc/X11/fs/config and add your new font path to the catalogue=... parameter.


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[jez]

Hi there,

I too have got font problems with Mozilla.

I have istalled TTF fonts (copies from my windoze partition) and the system looks much better.

The guide i used to install these fonts was for slackware but it worked on my system Ubuntu.

Here is the link

http://brendan.sdf-eu.org/articles/antialiasing_slack.php

But it does mention mozilla specifically in this howto, and it says that the only way to get better fonts is to re-compile it... is there no other way?

Thanks

Jez

 

[amarg]

Now I am able to see the HINDI fonts. But every time when I am going the reload or go to next link i have to change the character Encoding. Is there any way to fix this.

 

[zeland]

Character encoding is usually specified in the webpage itself. Web designers would usually include a line like <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf8"> to indicate to the browser how text should be rendered. If no such line is included, your browser will default to whatever character set used by your default locale.


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