Devangari fonts and mac

Can anybody help me to see Devanagari characters (the alphabet in which Hindi and other languages are written)? I am using a Mac OSX and all of the other languages on Cucumis are visible to me - Hindi and its cousins are the only ones that are not.

Hi Kafetzou,

Which browser are you using?

I'm on OSX too, and I'm using Opera and I seem to be able to display almost all fonts with it.

Try here to download it.

Bises
Tantine

Mac OSX, with Safari, displays pretty well all those devaganari characters. I read somewhere that OS9 had no support for devaganari at all.

I am using OSX, and with Firefox it displays just question marks, and with Safari it displays just one character with a box around it over and over. Is this a bug in my computer, or what?

This is a font problem. You need to install Devanagari script fonts which are used to write Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi & Nepali. You may search for them on google. Make sure they are of ttf - true type fonts variety.

Do you know Mac OSX, drkpp?

I am not used to MacOSX
These are basically UTF-8 type fonts. If your pc or server supports it, they should be displayed properly on the screen.

They're supposed to have come already installed with my operating system, but I seem to be unable to find out any more about this.

Hi Kafetzou,

I'm on OSX and I use Opera, I can see almost all fonts with this browser. Maybe you should try it out?

I put a link to its download page in an earlier message on this thread.

Bises
Tantine

Hi Tantine

Ah - finally another Mac user! I can see almost all of the fonts, too, but not the Devanagari fonts - can you see the ones that Hindi, etc. are written in?

Does Opera have the plug-in spell checkers for multiple languages? I'm totally in love with the new one I got for Greek - that's an impossible language to spell, and this new spell checker actually cuts my time for doing translations into Greek by about 60%!

I have Mac OS X and Firefox too, and they render drkpp's text properly. I cannot tell the difference between Sanskrit etc., but I can tell it is one of those. I avoid True Type fonts (ttf); I like Type 1 fonts.

Kafetzou, have you tried this? Firefox header menu View -> Character Encoding -> Unicode (UTF-.

Yes, Una. I had already tried that. My Character Encoding is on UTF-8 now but I see only bold question marks in Casper's message.

OK; I just installed two devanagari fonts from my boyfriend's computer's installation disks, and I restarted the computer, but there's still no difference. I can probably type in devanagari now, but I still can't see it.

देवानागाि

You should have done this in Windows or its equivalent in the OS concerned.
Settings-->>Control Panel-->>Regional & Language Options-->>Languages Check the boxes for 1. Install support for complex scripts & right to left languages 2. Install files for East Asian Languages.Click OK. You will need your original Windows installation CD(or other OS as the case may be). This needs to be done manually as it is not a default setting in Windows.

Macs don't work the same way that PCs do - this is all automatic, and it was automatic for all the other scripts (Japanese, Chinese, Chinese simplified, Korean, Greek, etc.), but not for Devanagari. I still don't know what the problem is.

OK; now I can see them in Safari, but not in Firefox. At least that's progress!

Hi, Kafetzon,

the computer company makes computers in consideration of markets, not purely linguistics. Minor languages can only be input and viewed throught their own font and inputing system.

Like uigur, mongol (Basba), tibetan,

Hindi is not a minor language! But thanks for your input.

-- kafetzou (not kafetzon)

I don't know how. Most Chinese use Microsoft Windows system. It is fine.

They´re alphabets- but still scripts! Or how about saying writing systems?