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Some unicode characters are not visible properly in Firefox and Netscape web browsers? What to do?

·  If you are viewing an unicode html page offline/statically (as opposed to viewing it dynamically), all browsers in Win98/WinME need at least one unicode Tamil font to be installed, apart from the presence of a compatible version of usp10.dll, to display the Tamil characters.

Microsoft's Latha.ttf is an unicode font which gets installed automatically along with WinXP. You can find it in the 'c:\windows\fonts' folder of any XP installation. You may search on 'latha.ttf' in google and get to know further details. Arial Unicode MS is yet another font which covers the Tamil unicode range of characters.


·  In case of dynamic Tamil web pages (using the MS supported .eot type dynamic font and not .pfr) viewed online, IE does not require any unicode font to be installed in the Win98/ME system whereas Firefox/Netscape does require a font.

Note :
1. If you failed to see your firefox show unicode Tamil characters properly despite various attempts, then wait for the next version of IE. It is supposed to incorporate all the advantageous and user-friendly features of Firefox.
2. If unicode Tamil characters are seen properly for some sites but not for other sites, it will be most probably because of the other sites having Tamil texts in "full justified" alignment. Firefox goes wild whenever it sees fully justified Tamil text.





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