[Smc-discuss] English-Malayalam Online dictionary

[Satyadev Nandakumar]

Hi,
   After some wrestling, I made Mozilla display the dictionary correctly.

The steps I took are: [taken from Malayalam Wikipedia]

Requisites: Windows XP Installation Disk, Mozilla Browser, Thoolika Font.
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1. Windows XP Settings
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1. Go to [Start]->
              [Settings]->
                        [Control Panel]->
                              [Regional and Language Options] 
	
2. Click on the "Languages" tab 
3. Check the "Install Files for Complex Script and
   right-to-left languages (including Thai)"
4. Click "Apply" 
5. Install the needed files from Windows XP CD.
6. Restart the computer.


2. Thoolika Font (in case it is not installed)
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1. Obtain the Thoolika font from supersoftweb,
   http://www.supersoftweb.com/THOLITRD.TTF
2. Install the font
   2.1 Click [Start]->[Settings]->[Control Panel]->[Fonts]
   2.2 Drag and drop the new ttf file into the Fonts window

3. Mozilla Settings
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1. Start Mozilla.
2. Click [Edit]->[Preferences]->[Appearance]->[Fonts]
3. In "Fonts for:", select "Unicode"
4. Change everything to "ThoolikaTraditionalUnicode"
5. Exit the browser and restart Mozilla.

Now it should be working. Test the settings with:

http://ml.wikipedia.org/

(or)

http://smc.sarovar.org/mal-dict/index.html

Mozilla has xsl support, so you shoule be seeing it as a table, as Suresh
and Dileep says it should.

Regards,
Satya.

On 28 Nov 2003, gireesh kumar poonattile wrote:

> Hi,

It was me who asked about the online dictionary. I saw Mr Suresh’s
dictionary. I don't know whether it's my browser's problem but the
interface appeared like a page directly copied from an XML file (I am
using IE 6) Also, one thing which keeps me wonder is the way the
characters are displayed. Won't it allow Koottaksharam. All characters
are displayed separately. Don't you think that it looks weird?

Again, I am quite clueless about how much effort has gone behind it. Love
to hear from more people.

regards
Gireesh