I am the big fan of tamil love poems.. 
Within Google reader all tamil blogs fonts are displayed correctly in chromium which was downloaded from Ubuntu software center. But when I goto that link directly, that page is not rendered properly. It shows some junk character in between. For example Initially this blog http://bit.ly/ndtgfq shown below
Tamil font is not rendered properly
But in the firefox its rendered correctly. It shows the fonts correctly. I solved this issue after little bit googling 
Here is the fix.
- Goto that directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/
- Delete both the FreeSerif.ttf and FreeSans.ttf file.
sudo rm -f /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf
sudo rm -f /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf
Then restart your browser. Now its shown correctly for me.
Tamil font displayed fine
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this is useful for me. thank you vermuch
Wonderful..It worked perfectly
hi
This guide did not work for me,on Linux Mint 11 x64, but found a work around
downlod tamil font –> http://www.tn.nic.in/tamilsw/otf.htm
choose the Unicode package
in cli
gksudo nautilus
browse to your download location open font .zip file and extract to
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont
restart your browser.
if the text look silly delete the first tamil font in above mentioned location.
/vinan
Thanks for information sharing..
It worked, thank you !
மிக்க நன்றி. நான் இதைத்தான் தேடிக்கொண்டு இருந்தேன். எனக்கு firefox இல் இந்தத் தொல்லை இருந்தது. உங்கள் யோசனையால் இப்போது அது தீர்ந்தது.
Thank you, Just what I was searching for…worked perfectly
Thank you, worked perfectly.
This is useful, Thanks.