Run
AnjaliOldLipi Installer
. No further steps required.
If you have Windows XP with the SP2 update, you already have a working system. The Kartika font which comes with the SP2 update is a decent font. But you need to install any Unicode 5.1 compliant fonts to see new chillus. (See the section
Managing Chillu Characters
for more details).
The most likely reason why you cannot see anything on the Malayalam Wikipedia is that you do not have a font that supports the Malayalam Unicode range. If you can see some letters, but there are too many errors, you probably have a font with poor support for Malayalam Unicode. Perhaps the best fonts available are
rachana
by K.H.Hussain,
Anjali Oldlipi
by
Kevinsooryan
, and the
ThoolikaTraditional Unicode font
. They work almost perfectly in Windows 95/98, ME, 2000, and XP (especially with Internet Explorer 5 or newer). Please download the fonts by following the above links and install them. To install, copy the fonts, open "Fonts" from Control Panel and paste the fonts in the Fonts directory.
Internet Explorer users:
If you were able to see some letters, you will need to change the font Internet Explorer uses for showing Malayalam Unicode. To do this pull down
Tools
from the menubar in Internet Explorer and follow
Internet Options...
, click on
Fonts
(button). Choose Malayalam in
Language script
first, and choose a Unicode font (AnjaliOldLipi, Thoolika, Rachana etc) in the
Web page font
box. Restart Internet Explorer if it doesn't work the first time around.
SeaMonkey (Mozilla) users:
- SeaMonkey is a continuation of Mozilla Application Suite, commonly known as Mozilla. Instructions should apply well to both.
You may need to turn on
"Indic"
support in Windows 2000. To do this, go to Control Panel in your computer, double click on Regional Options. In General Tab, language settings for the system, check the Indic box and click OK. You may need to restart the machine after doing this.
In Windows XP, go to Control Panel in your computer, open Regional and Language Options, select Languages tab, then under Supplemental language support, check the box next to "Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages..." and click OK. This requires restarting the computer.
In case you are still not able to see Malayalam letters properly in SeaMonkey, you should select the font SeaMonkey uses for Unicode by opening from SeaMonkey's menu bar Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts. Choose "Fonts for:" as Unicode and all typefaces as Rachana_w01 or ThoolikaUnicode.
Since SeaMonkey 2.0, its underlying code more closely follows the development path of Mozilla Firefox.
Firefox Users
AnjaliOldlipi
works excellently on Firefox. To use it as default font to display Malayalam and Other Languages [from Tools menu > Options item > Content tab > Fonts & Colors section > Advanced button > Select "Malayalam" and set Anjali as font for serif/san-serif/monospace, do the same for Other Languages also.
Managing Chillu Characters
If you are still using windows XP, default Karthika font available in windows for Malayalam is not able to handle
Atomic Chillu Characters
defined in Unicode 5.1.0. But current version of popular
AnjaliOldlipi
supports atomic chillus. If you are reluctant to use fonts which are encoded with atomic chillus, and using Firefox or Google Chrome, install
fix-ml
firefox add-on or
Fix-ml
chrome extension respectively to convert newly defined Chillaksharams to old fashion.
For Windows XP/IE 6 users
Users of Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 should have difficulty in viewing atomic chillus in their edit box, titlebar etc. even after installing and configuring a newer Unicode 5.1 compatible Malayalam font.
Uninstalling Kartika.ttf font
and
configuring the user interface elements (such as Window title, icon etc) to use any Unicode 5.1 compatible font (such as Anjali/Rachana)
through Display properties in control panel will fix this problem. Use Control?Panel->Display->Appearance->Advanced option for this configuration. Snapshot of this configuration is given
here
. A snapshot of wikipedia editor after this configuration can be seen
here
. In the image Malayalam character
?
in mangal pandey is atomic.