[Ilugc] Tamil news sites problem - Firefox
- From: mugunth@xxxxxxxxx (Muguntharaj Subramanian)
- Date: Mon Nov 19 12:13:40 2007
On Nov 19, 2007 11:51 AM, carti <carti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to see the tamil news sites
www.dinamalar.com
www.dailythanthi.com
www.dinakaran.com
thatstamil.oneindia.in
I used Internet Explorer 6. After I downloaded the fonts everything(all
the sites) worked fine(shown properly in nicely readable format).
The same thing when I tried with Firefox 2.0.0.9, it is not showing the
sites properly.
Most of the time magazine sites have their websites in proprietary encodings
and they provide dynamic fonts in their websites. Dynamic font technology
works only Internet explorer, so you wont find any problem in viewing those
sites in internet explorer.
But if you try copy paste the contents from the above website into notepad,
you will find they are shown as junk data.
For firefox (in any platform), we have a better work around for viewing
these sites. Thats by using Padma firefox extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/873
Padma firefox extension, converts the proprietory text into unicode text on
the fly and you will be able to view the sites in unicode. You can even save
the content as unicode text.
Regards
Mugunth
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