[Wikimediaindia-l] Looking for Devanagri help - windows this time .

[shirish शिरीष]

HI all,
  Because things are still a bit fresh in my mind, I tried to see how
Indian languages performed both on windows box as well as on
GNU/Linux.

This mail would talk only about windows xp while another mail would
give the issues in GNU/Linux.

While I can't give screenshots atm, this is on a friend's system and
he has the following browsers on the system :-

a. Mozilla Firefox 4.0b7 (beta)
b. Chrome 8.0 (stable)
c. Opera 11 (newly released)

We went through the whole she-bang at http://bit.ly/fCxKrf , also
looked at the uniscribe stuff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniscribe
saw the discussion at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Uniscribe#Uniscribe_version_in_SIL_FieldWorks

Also looked at http://www.catch22.net/tuts/neatpad/11

and were still scratching our heads as to why we weren't able to see
Devanagri in Google Chrome.

We installed the font Rachana.

Then we rebooted and in Firefox it renders but Google Chrome not
getting anything.

The USP.dll is at version 1.420.2600.2180 on my friend's system. This
was done using the steps outlined at

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=ComplexRomanFontFAQ#uniscribe

and looking at the version numbers at

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=UniscribeVersions

Looking for answers - it was fun.
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          Regards,
          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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