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Hi All,
i am designing a multilingual website (English / Kannada). I can display Kannada font in IE by using Microsoft WEFT. But it is not displaying properly in Firefox and other browsers. How can i solve this problem. Please help me.
Thanking you,
Vinith
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You need to encode them using UTF encoding.
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Hi All,
i am designing a multilingual website (English / Kannada). I can display Kannada font in IE by using Microsoft WEFT. But it is not displaying properly in Firefox and other browsers. How can i solve this problem.
Vinith
Windows doesn't support UTF-8 encoding very well, but that would be the way to go. I don't know the Kannada font, but like many other MS TrueType fonts it may not be complete.

I always use UTF-8 but I sometimes have problems with Windows, and especially Internet Explorer (7&8) not supporting Norwegian characters in filenames. It has cause a lot of problems.

The best solution would be to ditch Windows and IE altogether, but that's probably a bit unrealistic!
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You can include the font file on your site, and reference it in the html, so that those browsers without native unicode for Kannada can get it from the font file
a list of fonts containing support for Kannada http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Kannada.html#samples from which you can download a font to your site
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  1. @font-face {
  2. font-family: kannada;
  3. src: url(resolved-path-to-downloaded-kannada-font.ttf);
  4. }
in the css should permit access
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Thank you so much for your help.
Iam using following code for include font
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  1. <style type="text/css" media="screen, print">
  2. @font-face {
  3.  font-family: BRH Kannada;
  4.  src: local("BRH Kannada"), url("../fonts/brhknd.ttf") format("truetype");
  5. }
  6. body {
  7. 	font-family: "BRH Kannada", nudi_vedic_e;
  8. }
  9.  <!--[if IE 7]>
  10.   
  11. @font-face {
  12.  font-family: BRH Kannada;
  13.  src: url("../fonts/BRHKANN0.eot");
  14. }
  15.  <!-- [endif] -->
  16. </style>

I checked with IE7, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safri. But it is working only with Safari browser.
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css" media="screen, print">
@font-face {
font-family: BRH Kannada;
Does if work better if you put quotes around "BRH Kannada" ?
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Thank you. But it is not working
This is my modified code :
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HTML and CSS Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
  1. <style type="text/css" media="screen, print">
  2.  @font-face 
  3.  {
  4.   font-family: "BRH Kannada";
  5.   src: url("../fonts/brhknd.ttf") format("truetype");
  6.  }
  7. <!--[if IE 7]>
  8.   
  9. 	@font-face 
  10. 	{
  11. 		font-family: Times New Roman;
  12. 		font-style:  normal;
  13. 		font-weight: normal;
  14. 		src: url(../fonts/TIMESNE0.eot);
  15. 	}
  16. 	 @font-face 
  17. 	{
  18. 		font-family: BRH Kannada;
  19. 		font-style:  normal;
  20. 		font-weight: 700;
  21. 		src: url(../fonts/BRHKANN1.eot);
  22. 	}
  23. 	 @font-face 
  24. 	{
  25. 		font-family: BRH Kannada;
  26. 		font-style:  normal;
  27. 		font-weight: normal;
  28. 		src: url(../fonts/BRHKANN0.eot);
  29. 	}
  30. 	<!--[endif]-->
  31. </style>
This is working perfectly with IE7 and Safari
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It is not a good idea to use any special character in a filename, because some servers and Internet nodes don't know what to do with them. Stick to the US ASCII letters and numerals.
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It is not a good idea to use any special character in a filename, because some servers and Internet nodes don't know what to do with them. Stick to the US ASCII letters and numerals.
There's a world outside of USA. If a system doesn't allow characters outside the limited ASCII set, it's the system that needs to be changed.
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There's a world outside of USA. If a system doesn't allow characters outside the limited ASCII set, it's the system that needs to be changed.
The system dont really give a flying f___, the software was written in English
the internet, shipping, airtravel, native language is English.
A limited character set for transport protocols is probably a good thing, there are too many translation versions of 2byte codes that there would be less compatibility if each server were to try to interpret them, according to its installed version.
If you invent something(or steal it convincingly enough), the microcode would probably be in that language of the inventor(theif)
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