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Frequently Asked
Questions
(Click on problem below for solution)
Why
do I get weird characters instead of the Malayalam script?
I'm
using Netscape but I cannot view Malayalam characters in Deepika.
Why?
I'm
using Internet Explorer but I cannot view Malayalam characters in
Deepika. Why?
I
see dots and lines instead of Malayalam fonts. How do I fix this?
Why
can't I read the Deepika pages I saved to my hard disk?
Why
is there a White Fringe around the fonts when browsing Netscape?
Why
do I see mixed English characters with Malayalam Fonts?
Why do I get news of old date instead of the updated Malayalam news of today?
How can I view Malayalam fonts on a Linux system?
I cannot view Malayalam properly in Mozilla Firebird/Firefox. Why?
I
get weird characters instead of Malayalam. How can I read Deepika?
Response
- Check your browser
version. Browsers that can view Deepika without downloading fonts
are: Netscape 4.03 or above(on any operating system except Linux),
Internet Explorer 4.0 or above for Windows, AOL 4.0 or above for
Windows and iCab for Macintosh.
- Move to a non-Deepika
page, then delete the browser cache(s).
In Netscape, goto Preferences in Edit menu and choose Cache in Advanced.
Click on Clear Memory Cache and then Clear Disk Cache on the right
hand side of screen to clear the cache.
In IE, goto Internet Options in Tool menu and click on the Clear
History button to clear the cache.
- Now, force the Deepika
page to reload by holding down the Shift key while clicking the
Reload or Refresh button.
If you have browser
versions earlier to the above specified, please either download the
latest version of your browser or download the font from Deepika to read the news in Malayalam.
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I'm
using Netscape but I cannot view Malayalam characters in Deepika.
Why?
Response
- Check your
browser version. You need Netscape 4.03 or higher to view dynamic
fonts.
- Check the dynamic
fonts option in Netscape. Open the Edit menu, and choose Preferences.
If Appearance has a plus sign (+) next to it, click the + Under
Appearance, choose Fonts Make sure this box is checked: Use document
specified fonts, including dynamic fonts.
- Force the page
to reload by holding down the Shift key while clicking the Reload
or Refresh button.
- Move to any
other non-Deepika page, then delete the Netscape caches ( as specified
in Problem 1). Re-load the Deepika page.
If you have earlier
versions of Netscape (below 4.03) , please either download the latest
version of Netscape or download the font from Deepika to read the news in Malayalam.
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I'm
using Internet Explorer but I cannot view Malayalam characters in
Deepika. Why?
Response
- Check your browser
version. You need Internet Explorer 4.0 for Windows or higher to
view dynamic fonts.Dynamic fonts in Internet Explorer are supported
only under Windows, Dynamic fonts are not supported in Internet
Explorer for other operating systems.
- Force the page to
reload by holding down the Shift key while clicking the Reload or
Refresh button.
- Check the Security
setting in Internet Explorer. In IE, goto Internet Options in Tool
menu and click on the Security tab in the new screen. Set security
to Medium to allow the WebFont player to download for the first
time.
- If you have earlier
versions of Internet Explorer (below 4.0), please either download
the latest version of Internet Explorer or download the font from Deepika to read the news in
Malayalam.
- Also
goto Tools -> Internet options -> General -> Accessibility
-> Formatting and remove check mark in Ignore
font styles specified on web pages and refresh the page.
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I
see dots and lines instead of Malayalam fonts. How do I fix this?
Response
- Your Netscape browser
has probably run out of memory resources. Close your Netscape browser,
then re-open it. Also, make sure you have the latest release from
Netscape (above 4.03).
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Why can't I read the Deepika pages I saved to my hard disk?
Response
- The
pages can be viewed only from our site if the font is not downloaded
on your system. If you want to view from hard disk you have to download
the Deepika Malayalam font else if you load HTML files from your
hard disk, you will not see Malayalam characters in our page.
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Why is there a White Fringe around the fonts when browsing
Netscape?
Response
- This
problem is not in the font. It is in the dynamic font displayer
used by Netscape. It should have been fixed in Netscape browser
versions 4.05 and 4.07, but is back in Netscape 4.5
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Why
can't I see Malayalam Fonts properly in Internet Explorer?
Response
Internet
Explorer
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On
the IE5 or above right click the mouse button, choose Encoding
in the menu displayed. Then choose: User Defined on the Encoding
list. If this option is not seen, choose More. In More list, Choose
User Defined.
Netscape
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Why
do I get news of old date instead of the updated Malayalam news of
today?
Response
- This
problem is happening since the pages are taken from the cache memory
in your computer. To get the updated news of the day, please click
the right button of mouse on the news page. A
menu will be displayed.
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If you are using IE, click on REFRESH on the menu displayed. If
you are using Netscape, please click on RELOAD FRAME on the menu.
This will get you the updated news of the particular day.
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How can I view Malayalam fonts on a Linux system?
Response
- Please follow the following steps to install the fonts on your linux machine
- Download the font from deepika.com
- Find out the fonts directory for true type X-Window font server.
It may be running as either xfs or xfstt.
Some possible names for the font directoriesmay be: usr/share/fonts or usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
- Copy the fonts in the fonts directory.You will need to be Root / Superuser to do this.
Reboot the system.
- If you do not have the root permission you may try the following steps:
(This may not work for all versions of linux. You may have to contact the system administrator in that case.)
Create a directory for storing fonts in your login and suppose we call it 'fonts'.
That is the directory path will be $HOME/ fonts
- Copy the font in the fonts directory.
- Change current directory to $HOME/fonts.
Run ttmkfdir > fonts.dir
Run ttmkfdir > fonts.scale.
- These will create 'fonts.scale' and 'fonts.dir' files in the directory.
Now run the following commands .
/usr/X11R6/bin/xset fp+ $HOME/fonts
/usr/X11R6/bin/xset fp rehash
The fonts are installed.
- In the Netscape/Mozilla window go to
edit->preferences-> fonts and define the encoding to be 'user-Defined'.
Then select View->Character Set->User-Defined.
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I cannot view Malayalam properly in Mozilla Firebird/Firefox. Why?
Response
- Please follow the following steps to install the fonts
- Download the font from deepika.com
- In the Mozilla browser, please goto View menu, point Character Coding and then select Western (ISO-8859-1) to get proper fonts.
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