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Indic Script Support in Mozilla Browsers on Mac

June 24th, 2007 Leave a comment Go to comments

Support for Indic script in Mozilla Browsers on the Mac has so far been missing. But I got a pleasant surprise with the latest trunk builds of both Firefox and Camino. They both handle Indic Scripts pretty well. I am sure this is thanks to Gecko 1.9.

Here’s what I am talking about. The snapshot below shows rendering of Hindi version of Google News on Camino 1.5. It is mostly… well, question marks!

Following is the same page viewed with the trunk version of Camino. That’s more like it!

Like I mentioned, I saw this with trunk versions of both Firefox and Camino – with many websites using Indic script.

शुभ वाचन !! (Happy Reading… if there’s such a greeting :) )

Author: Mahesh Asolkar Tags: , ,

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