Oh I see. Thanks Ragib. - Sundar Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android |
| Sundar, this is not a UTF-8 or other encoding related problem. In fact, the problem Shirish mentions is a well known problem with Chrome. We have had many people complain about this for Bengali unicode websites. Some people mentioned that using the following add-on solves the problem: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/iicdbaakmbgjjfjjfnkbiiglclmhopnf I myself haven't faced the problem ... but just want to let Shirish know that this is not an uncommon one. Ragib -- Ragib Hasan, Ph.D NSF Computing Innovation Fellow and Assistant Research Scientist Dept of Computer Science Johns Hopkins University 3400 N Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 Website: http://www.ragibhasan.com On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:34 AM, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse@yahoo.com> wrote: >> > Excuse me if you've tried this already, but check whether the encoding is >>not >> > Western or something. UTF-8 or, in the case of many sites, user-defined >>encoding >> > works just fine. Please check >> > http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95290 for more >>info. >> >> I didn't get what you said . > > I should've been clearer. I wanted it to be set to utf-8 (if it is something > else). > For some sites (which specify the encoding or fonts in HTML), you can try > setting "user-defined". > > - Sundar > > "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for > the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." > - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: shirish शिरीष <shirishag75@gmail.com> >> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Sent: Fri, December 17, 2010 11:59:14 AM >> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Looking for Devanagri help - windows this time >>. >> >> In-line :- >> >> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:36, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse@yahoo.com> wrote: >> > Excuse me if you've tried this already, but check whether the encoding is >>not >> > Western or something. UTF-8 or, in the case of many sites, user-defined >>encoding >> > works just fine. Please check >> > http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95290 for more >>info. >> >> I didn't get what you said . >> >> Shouldn't it be UTF-8 rather than Western ? >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/UTF-8 >> >> It is set to UTF-8 . >> >> > I'm not on Windows now, and hence, unable to go through the above process. >> >> That's not the point. Neither am I most of the time, Its just that if >> we need to have some more people on regional language wikipedias there >> should be an easy way to do that. >> >> If somebody like me who has little idea about things to try and does >> stuff, has to go through hoops in order to get it right , then normal >> (read people who have no idea or interest in tweaking or trying out >> things) are simply left in the cold. >> >> I am going to be trying now on GNU/Linux as well as I did see some >> inconsistencies on my system as well. The Windows system will be with >> me overnight so if any more experiments have to be done, can be done >> as well. >> >> > - Sundar >> > >> > "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium >>for >> > the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." >> > - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल >> My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 >> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ >> http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com >> 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l |