On Wednesday 20 April 2005 10:18, Kaushik Ghose wrote: > Stock firefox has supported unicode since the fist version I > downloaded (0.9) and shows bangla pages with OTF just fine.
One should not make such global statements about software that have different rendering backends on different OS's. I'm sure your statement is correct for the particular version of the particular OS you were running at the time, but it is uninformative unless you tell us what that was (I'm guessing some form of Windows). > -kg > > Progga wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 03:53:17PM +0000, Shekhar Nath wrote: > >>The pictures and other things open > >>clearly but the bengali fonts don't come properly. > > > > They won't, because stock Mozilla doesn't support Open Type fonts > > which are needed to view Unicode-encoded webpages. The newly > > released BanglaFox browser ( a derivative of Mozilla FireFox ) can > > show you such webpages correctly. You can also use Konqueror. But > > if the webpages you are trying to browse uses an encoding different > > from Unicode then all the possibility is that it uses an embedded > > font. The solution is to findout the name of the font from the > > html source of the webpage and then download and install that font. > > > > You can send the URL of the site if you wish. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: New Crystal Reports XI. Version 11 adds new functionality designed to reduce time involved in creating, integrating, and deploying reporting solutions. Free runtime info, new features, or free trial, at: http://www.businessobjects.com/devxi/728 _______________________________________________ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
