Problem viewing Tamil fonts in chromium on Ubuntu

Posted by on August 26, 2011 Leave a comment (13) Go to comments

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 :P

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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13 Comments.

  1. poomalairaj May 4, 2012 at 2:44 am

    Hi,
    I was also experiencing the problem.
    using your method resolved the tamil fonts issue.
    Thanks for sharing this useful information

    Reply
  2. sathu April 18, 2012 at 9:55 am

    thanx dude!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  4. baskaran February 5, 2012 at 10:57 am

    this is useful for me. thank you vermuch

    Reply
  5. Navin December 17, 2011 at 9:23 am

    Wonderful..It worked perfectly

    Reply
  6. vinqan December 16, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    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

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  7. Rajeshrv November 6, 2011 at 11:20 am

    It worked, thank you !

    Reply
  8. Guru November 5, 2011 at 9:30 pm

    மிக்க நன்றி. நான் இதைத்தான் தேடிக்கொண்டு இருந்தேன். எனக்கு firefox இல் இந்தத் தொல்லை இருந்தது. உங்கள் யோசனையால் இப்போது அது தீர்ந்தது.

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  9. Diwakar September 24, 2011 at 4:42 am

    Thank you, Just what I was searching for…worked perfectly

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  10. Diwakar September 24, 2011 at 4:42 am

    Thank you, worked perfectly.

    Reply
  11. vijay September 8, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    This is useful, Thanks.

    Reply

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