Viewing Hindi script

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Viewing Hindi script

I've installed the "Additional Fonts" from the MacOS X.4 disc (which includes Devanagari).

Hindi text now displays correctly in Safari, but NOT in FireFox.

Sample pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi

Any thoughts?

Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Oct 2, 2007 10:15 AM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Oct 2, 2007 11:18 AM in response to artchain

Various apps, including Firefox, MS Office for Mac, all Adobe apps for Mac, just can't do Hindi.

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/TypingDevanagari.html

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Answer 2

Nov 2, 2007 9:24 PM in response to artchain

As Tom mentioned, Firefox for OS X does not support Hindi yet. Most modern Mac applications that support non-Roman Unicode scripts do support Hindi and Safari, Pages, TextEdit and even the Mac's Finder are decent examples. If you look at Tom's website, you will see a very accurate note about how Mac OS X, even up to Tiger and Leopard, contains several bugs in its implementation of Hindi Unicode.

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