Have you checked this issue with the active users of Hindi wikipedia or other wikis that use Devanagri script? And are you able to reproduce this issue in another system?

Google chrome is displaying Devanagri without any issues in my system (WindowsXP SP2 + Google chrome 8.0).

The problem might be there only in your friend's system.  Try this solution: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en…

Shiju

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'm not on Windows now, and hence, unable to go through the above process.

- 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

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(a)gmail.com> > To: wikimediaindia-l(a)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(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > 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(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l