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Font Troubleshooting
 For
Windows
This website uses Dynamic Fonts to
display Indian languages. This means you should not need to
download any fonts. However, we do occasionally receive feedback
that the fonts are not visible. If you have problems viewing the
Indian language scripts, you could try the following steps:
Netscape
Users (Netscape 4.03 to 4.76)
Internet Explorer
IE 5.5 to 6.0
IE 4.0 to 5.0
Download Fonts (if
nothing else works)
For Linux
Linux users will need to download
the font. Please follow instructions given.
If you have root permission
If you do not have root
permission
Windows
Netscape Users
This site can be viewed using
Netscape 4.03 to 4.76. If you have these browser versions and
still cannot see Indian language scripts, then:
1. Go to Edit > Preferences > Appearance
> Fonts. Ensure that the option "Use document-specified
fonts, including Dynamic Fonts" is selected
2. Clear the cache of your browser
1. Open the Edit menu of your browser and choose Preferences
2. Click the Advanced category and select Cache
3. Click the "Clear Disk Cache button" and the
"Clear Memory Cache" button
4. Click OK
3. Restart the browser or open the site in a
new instance of the browser window
Windows
Internet Explorer Users
IE 5.5 to 6.0
IE 5.5 and IE 6.0 do not display the
Indian language fonts correctly. This is due to some changes
made in their display parameters. We do
not have a solution to this problem, though we are working on
it. Please bear with us.
IE 4.0 to
5.0
If you have these browser versions and still cannot see Indian
language scripts, then:
1. Go to View > Encoding. Make sure that
the "Auto Select" option is checked
2. Go back to View > Encoding. Now select
the "User Defined" option.
3. Clear the cache of your browser
1. Open the Tools menu
of your browser and choose Internet Options
2. In the General tab,
see the section on "Temporary Internet files"
3. Click the
"Delete Files button"
4. Click OK
4. Restart the browser or open the site in a
new instance of the browser window
Windows
Download Fonts
(if nothing else works)
If you are still facing
problems viewing any of the Indian language scripts, please
download the appropriate fonts.
The word "Arjuna" appears
in the appropriate script beside the language options. If you
cannot see the word appear properly you should download the
font. Click on the language you wish to use, to download
the required font and "Run" the downloaded
".exe" file. Each individual file size is around 175K.
These fonts have been created at CDAC.
Assamese
%LÇÛX
Bengali
%LÇÛX
Devanagari
+VÉÖÇxÉ
Gujarati
+WÖðÇ{É Kannada
Ú@dß%«Ú
Malayalam
AcvPp\
Oriya
@SÊà_Æ
Punjabi AjOx`
Roman
arjuna
Tamil
Ao_÷S
Telugu
@LêRiV©«s
All Fonts
If you do not wish to run the
".exe" files, you may copy the fonts given below
directly in your fonts directory.
To download a font, click on the language you wish to use. Copy
the font in c:/windows/fonts directory of your machine.
Assamese
%LÇÛX
Bengali
%LÇÛX
Devanagari
+VÉÖÇxÉ
Gujarati
+WÖðÇ{É
Kannada
Ú@dß%«Ú
Malayalam
AcvPp\
Oriya
@SÊà_Æ
Punjabi
AjOx`
Roman arjuna
Tamil
Ao_÷S
Telugu
@LêRiV©«s
Linux
User
You will need to download the font on
your machine
If you have root
permission:
Locate 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 directory may be usr/share/fonts
or usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts)
Download the font (The list of fonts is given below )
To download a font, click on the language you wish to use.
Assamese
%LÇÛX
Bengali
%LÇÛX
Devanagari
+VÉÖÇxÉ
Gujarati
+WÖðÇ{É Kannada
Ú@dß%«Ú
Malayalam
AcvPp\
Oriya
@SÊà_Æ
Punjabi AjOx`
Roman
arjuna
Tamil
Ao_÷S
Telugu
@LêRiV©«s
All Fonts
Copy the fonts in the fonts
directory
Reboot the system
If you do not have root
permission:
(This method may not work for
all versions of linux. If it does not, please contact your
system administrator.)
Create a directory for storing the fonts. If you call this
directory 'fonts', the directory path will be $HOME/fonts
Download the font (The list of fonts is given below)
To download a font, click on the language you wish to use.
Assamese
%LÇÛX
Bengali
%LÇÛX
Devanagari
+VÉÖÇxÉ
Gujarati
+WÖðÇ{É
Kannada
Ú@dß%«Ú
Malayalam
AcvPp\
Oriya
@SÊà_Æ
Punjabi
AjOx`
Roman
arjuna
Tamil
Ao_÷S
Telugu
@LêRiV©«s
Copy the fonts in the fonts
directory
Change current directory to $HOME/fonts
Run ttmkfdir>fonts.dir (this will create a 'fonts.dir' file in
the directory)
Run ttmkfdir>fonts.scale (this will create a 'fonts.scale' file
in the directory)
Now run the commands:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xset fp+ $HOME/fonts
/usr/X11R6/bin/xset fp rehash
The fonts are installed
In the Netscape window
1.Go to Edit>Preferences>fonts and define
the encoding to be 'User-defined'
2.Then go to View>Character Set and select
'User-Defined
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