GNOME is a versatile Desktop Environment with native pango support which means better rendering in-built.
Use apt-get install ttf-malayalam-fonts in Debian based distributions(Debian Ubuntu etc ) and yum install smc-fonts in fedora
- All major distributions comes with malayalam fonts.
- Download Malayalam Unicode fonts] and copy it to fonts:/// Directory.
- Installing Font in Gnome,Kde and X in general
- If your distribution does not come with any indic font(here,Malayalam), you will need to install one.
- pango enabled firefox does provide good indic fonts support.In Debian GNU/Linux Iceweasel provides the best indic rendition.You can enable Gnome browser epiphany for pango support via gconf2 tool as epiphany also is based on gecko.
- You can see a how to to enable malayalam in your computer the Malayalam Computing Portal.
- You may need to follow specific installation guides from Swathanthra malayalam Computing to configure it well
- All latest GNU/Linux distributions support Malayalam well.
- You can install the Malayalam language pack for your operating system to see the Microsoft Windows GUI in Malayalam. That is, you can type in Manglish and you will see in real Malayalam.Īlso, you can copy-paste any Malayalam article from some web site and that will be converted back to Manglish for correction, further editing or conversion to Unicode or another font. VaramozhiVaramozhi Editor is a transliteration based Malayalam text Editor that runs on both Windows and Unix. Then select Web page font as AnjaliOldLipi.
- Click Start, Control Panel, Internet Options, Fonts.
- Download and copy AnjaliOldLipi.ttf to WindowsFonts folder.
- Delete any old version of AnjaliOldLipi Font from Fonts directory which is often C:WINDOWSFonts or C:WINNTFonts.
- Microsoft Windows Configuring for reading This guide is for configuring your computer to enable reading and writing Malayalam in Windows, and GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems. There are template/file changes awaiting review. The latest reviewed version was checked on 10 July 2015.