Indian Language Fonts

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Indian Language Fonts

Using MAC OS X, safari/chrome/mozilla: when displaying Indian Language scripts encoded in UTF-8,
how does the browser choose which font to use? For instance, I have only one telugu font (Pothana) installed; however, when telugu script is displayed, it uses some other font (which I do not know) and it switches between that font and Pothana non-deterministically. One font stays for a few days and suddenly switches to the other. How do I control this? Same problem no matter which browser (safari/chrome/mozilla) is used.

MAC Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Aug 8, 2010 9:01 AM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Aug 8, 2010 10:15 AM in response to eknath

Each browser is different I think. Firefox > Preferences > Content > Fonts > Advanced has settings for languages, while Safari/Chrome does not.

For Telugu, there is only one free font that displays correctly in OS X, which is

http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/telugu/

So you can get rid of all the others you might have. That should help avoid anything else being used.

Another Telegu font for OS X is available here:

http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxTelugu.html

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