Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Please help

Please let me know if my Tamil Post below shows up correctly in your computer.

I've been getting phone calls from my friends and relatives that it shows as ???????.

If it shows as ?? can someone please tell me how to fix it.
  1. Will this work in MAC?
  2. Why do some users have problems in Windows ( Or is it Browser related ..?)
  3. Your help / answers will help me to decide if it is worth the time blogging in my beloved Tamil.!

14 comments:

Kay said...

Nekku nanna theriyarathu na :)

Twin-Gemini said...

It's probably because of the font installed in the computer. I think one might need the Amudham font to view the tamil characters. Dr.Google can help you find it and install it.

Ram C said...

I am able to see them..

Me said...

i am able to see it from my school computer. i am sure there is no tamil font in this

guyfromblore said...

I can see it, and I use Firefox and I didnt have to install any extra fonts on my comp.

Anonymous said...

i had to install fonts on my linux and mac but I can read all your posts. this site useful I think winxp ships with some tamil unicode font and tiger is supposed to have tamil support by default.
so, keep blogging in tamil.

Ram Viswanathan said...

I use firefox and have 'no problems' to report with this post.. However your earlier post in Tamil did have some unreadable characters..

Ram

Adaengappa !! said...

We could try couple of things..
1.Go to View >Encoding >More> Unicode(UTF-8)
2.Go to View> Encoding>More>User defined ..

Hope the change in settings helps..

Btw,I can read ur blogs in Tamil and i got no Tamil fonts installed.
XP2000

saranyan r said...

Narayanan, loved those kavidhais. please continue to post in tamil.

AS for the fonts, I think you had enough suggestions already :)

tifoc said...

Narayanan, I can read it. அடேங்கப்பா !! is correct. Try that option. If that doesnt work install the tamil fonts.

capriciously_me said...

thot u mite be interested :)

http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/28/stories/2005042806130400.htm

Narayanan Venkitu said...

Folks,
Thanks for all your comments I appreciate it.
I've passed on your comments to all my friends / relatives who had problems.!


CM - Thanks for the good link. I liked it. Good work I think. Good for Tamil.

PVS said...

No prob for me. I'm able to see the posts.

Amrita said...

I am afraid Narayanan, Your tamil writings appear as squares in my computer. I am sorry I do not have asolution for it. Past one week I had loads of porblems posting pics myself. I guess it might be something to do with html error or something.