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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Looking for Devanagri help - windows this time . <br>
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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">Sundar, this is not a UTF-8 or other encoding related problem. In<BR>fact, the problem Shirish mentions is a well known problem with<BR>Chrome. We have had many people complain about this for Bengali<BR>unicode websites.<BR><BR>Some people mentioned that using the following add-on solves the<BR>problem: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/iicdbaakmbgjjfjjfnkbiiglclmhopnf" target=_blank >https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/iicdbaakmbgjjfjjfnkbiiglclmhopnf</a><BR><BR>I myself haven't faced the problem ... but just want to let Shirish<BR>know that this is not an uncommon one.<BR><BR><BR>Ragib<BR><BR>--<BR>Ragib Hasan, Ph.D<BR>NSF Computing Innovation Fellow and<BR>Assistant Research Scientist<BR><BR>Dept of Computer Science<BR>Johns Hopkins University<BR>3400 N Charles Street<BR>Baltimore, MD 21218<BR><BR>Website:<BR><a href="http://www.ragibhasan.com"
target=_blank >http://www.ragibhasan.com</a><BR><BR><BR><BR>On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:34 AM, BalaSundaraRaman <<a ymailto="mailto:sundarbecse@yahoo.com" href="javascript:return">sundarbecse@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<BR>>> > Excuse me if you've tried this already, but check whether the encoding is<BR>>>not<BR>>> > Western or something. UTF-8 or, in the case of many sites, user-defined<BR>>>encoding<BR>>> > works just fine. Please check<BR>>> > <a href="http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95290" target=_blank >http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95290</a> for more<BR>>>info.<BR>>><BR>>> I didn't get what you said .<BR>><BR>> I should've been clearer. I wanted it to be set to utf-8 (if it is something<BR>> else).<BR>> For some sites (which specify the encoding or fonts in HTML), you can try<BR>> setting
"user-defined".<BR>><BR>> - Sundar<BR>><BR>> "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for<BR>> the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."<BR>> - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> ----- Original Message ----<BR>>> From: shirish शिरीष <<a ymailto="mailto:shirishag75@gmail.com" href="javascript:return">shirishag75@gmail.com</a>><BR>>> To: <a ymailto="mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org" href="javascript:return">wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><BR>>> Sent: Fri, December 17, 2010 11:59:14 AM<BR>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Looking for Devanagri help - windows this time<BR>>>.<BR>>><BR>>> In-line :-<BR>>><BR>>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:36, BalaSundaraRaman <<a ymailto="mailto:sundarbecse@yahoo.com"
href="javascript:return">sundarbecse@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<BR>>> > Excuse me if you've tried this already, but check whether the encoding is<BR>>>not<BR>>> > Western or something. UTF-8 or, in the case of many sites, user-defined<BR>>>encoding<BR>>> > works just fine. Please check<BR>>> > <a href="http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95290" target=_blank >http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95290</a> for more<BR>>>info.<BR>>><BR>>> I didn't get what you said .<BR>>><BR>>> Shouldn't it be UTF-8 rather than Western ?<BR>>> <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/UTF-8" target=_blank >https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/UTF-8</a><BR>>><BR>>> It is set to UTF-8 .<BR>>><BR>>> > I'm not on Windows now, and hence, unable to go through the above
process.<BR>>><BR>>> That's not the point. Neither am I most of the time, Its just that if<BR>>> we need to have some more people on regional language wikipedias there<BR>>> should be an easy way to do that.<BR>>><BR>>> If somebody like me who has little idea about things to try and does<BR>>> stuff, has to go through hoops in order to get it right , then normal<BR>>> (read people who have no idea or interest in tweaking or trying out<BR>>> things) are simply left in the cold.<BR>>><BR>>> I am going to be trying now on GNU/Linux as well as I did see some<BR>>> inconsistencies on my system as well. The Windows system will be with<BR>>> me overnight so if any more experiments have to be done, can be done<BR>>> as well.<BR>>><BR>>> > - Sundar<BR>>> ><BR>>> > "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not
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