Tamil Font Help

·                     Windows XP and Windows Vista

·                     Windows 98 and Windows 2000 With IE 6.0+

·                     Windows XP and Server 2003 Users

·                     Linux Operating System

·                     Mac and iPhone

Windows XP and Windows Vista Users

If you face any problem then do the following

Go to Tools -> Internet options -> Fonts -> select Tamil

Windows 98 and Windows 2000 With IE 6.0+ Users

If you see boxes, circles or junk characters instead of Tamil fonts follow Step 1.

Step 1:

- Go to 'View' -> 'Encoding' and choose 'Unicode (UTF-8)'



Copy the appropriate files from the Windows 2000 CD when prompted.



If prompted, reboot your computer once the files have been installed.

Windows XP and Server 2003 Users

Go to Start > Control Panel.

If you are in "Category View" select the icon that says "Date, Time, Language and Regional Options" and then select "Regional and Language Options".

If you are in Classic View select the icon that says "Regional and Language Options".



Select the "Languages" tab and make sure you select the option saying "Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai)". A confirmation message should now appear - press "Click OK" on this confirmation message.



Allow the OS to install necessary files from the Windows XP CD and then reboot if prompted.


The above steps should fix the problem. If it still doesn't, please write to us at webmaster@virakesari.lk with the browser version, OS version and the problem you are facing.

It would help us if you can send a snapshot of the characters which are not correct. Please follow the instructions

- Open the page which has the problem.
- Press 'Print Screen' key on the keyboard.
- Open a Word processing software like Word and paste (Control-V) the snapshot.
- Save the file and send it to us.

Unicode support in IE browser before version 6.0 is not good. We recommend you upgrade to atleast IE 6.0+

For Linux Operating System:

Copy one of the Tamil fonts file from Tamil Fonts(but we recommend Lohit-Tamil font) to .fonts directory in the user's home directory. If .fonts directory does not exist in the home directory, please create it. Finally run the command 'fc-cache' from the command prompt.

It is very important to restart the browser, only then you will be able to read the content in Tamil.

Mac Users:

We recommend Users to use Mac OS X 10.4 and Safari 2.0 to view the Unicode fonts without trouble.

iPhone : Unfortunately iPhone doesn't support any Indian Unicode fonts. We are as eager as you to make our language channels iPhone compatible.

If you still have a problem, please write to us at webmaster@virakesari.lk with the browser version, OS version and the problem you are facing.