How to read tamil newspapers and magazines

[jeyaganesh]

Hallo, I would like to know how to read tamil online newspapers and magazines in ubuntu?
Please give me clear idea to using fonts to read tamil websites, because i have no skills to use commands in terminal. I would like to use ubuntu in tamil but I want to know why tamil letters are looking strange in ubuntu?

Thanks in advance.

With love
jai

[drtvasudevan]

problem is that these people are not using unicode.
each site seems to have the font of their own choice.
that is the crux of the problem.
install the fonts they want you to and i think you might be able to read them.
else -if you are using firefox that is default with ubuntu- use an addon called padma.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/873/

let me know how it went.

[amachu.techie]

தின மலர், தின கரன் போன்ற பத்திரிக்கைகளின் பிரதிகள் படங்களின் வாயிலாகவும் வெளிடயிடப் படுகின்றன.

epaper.dinamalar.com

பார்க்கவும். இங்ஙனம் வெளியிடும் போது எழுத்துரு பிரச்சனைகள் அதிகம் இருப்பதில்லை.

ஆனால் யுனிகோட் முறையினை அனைவரும் பயன்படுத்த முனைந்தால் நல்லது. விரைவில் "நிரல் விடு தூது" எனும் உபுண்டு தமிழ் குழும பத்திரிக்கையினை எதிர்பாருங்கள்...

:)

[jeyaganesh]

Hi I tried 'padma' add-on from firefox. now vikatan become readable but points above the letters are not in correct position. For the same reason I didnt install ubuntu in tamil. I my laptop I try to install ubuntu in tamil, tamil letters are not in proper pattern, even tamil letters in our Tamil Lo Co Team also not in proper pattern. One have to take stress to read them.

I wish we have to creat unicode soon or some other good solution. But I have no programming skill to do so. We can form group to solve these problems
:KS

[drtvasudevan]

Hi I tried 'padma' add-on from firefox. now vikatan become readable but points above the letters are not in correct position. For the same reason I didnt install ubuntu in tamil. I my laptop I try to install ubuntu in tamil, tamil letters are not in proper pattern, even tamil letters in our Tamil Lo Co Team also not in proper pattern. One have to take stress to read them.

I wish we have to creat unicode soon or some other good solution. But I have no programming skill to do so. We can form group to solve these problems
:KS

actually it is simple to fix this problem.
what version of ubuntu ?
the answer is in the tamil ubuntu mail forum

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[amachu.techie]

I wish we have to creat unicode soon or some other good solution. But I have no programming skill to do so. We can form group to solve these problems
:KS

தங்கள் சிந்தனையை வரவேற்கிறோம். நமது இணைய தளம் யுனிகோடினை தழுவியதே!

தங்கள் உலாவியின் (Browser) Encoding வகை UTF-8 தானா என சரி பார்க்கவும். View --> Character Encoding --> UTF-8

இல்லையெனில் மாற்றி முயற்சி செய்யுங்கள் .

:)

[jeyaganesh]

Thanks for your advice. I am using Ubuntu 6.10. I am very curious to use my computer in full tamil language.

[amachu.techie]

மிக்க மகிழ்ச்சி. தாங்கள் எங்குள்ளீர்கள்? தங்களால் தமிழாக்கதிற்கு நேரடியாக பங்களிக்க முடியுமா?

Kde தமிழாக்கத்திற்கு தன்னார்வ தொண்டர்கள் தேவை. :-)

[jeyaganesh]

Hallo, I am studying in Germany. I am Madurai-boy now doing my Ph D in Germany. I first thank you for inviting me to contribute for tamil.
Tell me what can I contribute for tamil ubuntu. I have no programming skills. But I am willing to do something for tamil. I hope you will guide me further:D .

-Jay

[drtvasudevan]

Hallo, I am studying in Germany. I am Madurai-boy now doing my Ph D in Germany. I first thank you for inviting me to contribute for tamil.
Tell me what can I contribute for tamil ubuntu. I have no programming skills. But I am willing to do something for tamil. I hope you will guide me further:D .

-Jay

if you are comfortable in talking and writing in tamil you can contribute by some translation work so that a user knowing only tamil can install, run, and write in tamil using ubuntu.
would you like to? we can guide you through the steps needed to do that.
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[jeyaganesh]

Ok. I am very pleasure to do that. Please guide me further. :D

[amachu.techie]

ஆம்.

நீச்சயமாக. நம்முள் உள்ள பணி மிகப் பெரியதாய் தோற்றமளிக்கிறது :-)

தற்சமயம் இதனை ஒரு ஒருங்கிணைக்கப் பட்ட முறையில் கொண்டு செல்வது குறித்து யோசிக்கின்றோம்.

வாரம்தோரும் 50 சொற்களை தமிழாக்கி அனுப்ப முடியுமா? அச்சொற்களை மடல் மூலம் தங்களுக்கு அனுப்பிவைக்கிறேன்.

:-)

நாம் நமது தமிழாக்கம் குறித்த தற்காலிக நிலவரங்களை நமது Irc யில் வாரந்தோரும் பகிர்ந்துக் கொள்ளலாம்.

சனிக் கிழமை தோதாக இருக்குமா?

இந்திய நேரம் மாலைப் பொழுது? திவா தாங்களும் சில நேரங்களை பரிந்துரைங்களேன்?

நன்றி.

[jeyaganesh]

Ok. Thats sound good. You can send me words by email, I will try to translate into practical tamil that we are using in day-to-day life. Yes we can talk on saturdays, but I have some works this weekend. We will talk on from next weekends and whenever we are free.
My email id is jeyaganesh.rajamanickam@gmail.com. Please write me what should I do. I appreciate you very much for including me for your contributions.:KS
-Jay

[jeyaganesh]

Hi, Now I am able to read tamil magazines and newspaper in ubuntu after installing some fonts.
I downloaded fonts from http://shyamk.blogspot.com/2006/12/installing-tamil-fonts-in-linux.html and from particular tamil websites like www.vikatan.com, www.thatstamil.com.
Then i copied those fonts into location 'fonts:///'. After copying i didnt see new fonts there, but i could see my fonts /home/<username>/.fonts (in nautilus).

In next step I rebuilt the font cache in terminal using the code 'sudo fc-cache -f -v'.

Now i am able to read tamil websites. Opera browser is working good than firefox in viewing tamil fonts.

Hope this will help some people to view tamil websites

[drtvasudevan]

of course that is howto install fonts.
this is a good reference for people with similar problems.

there are two aspects to seeing the tamil sites.
one is font.
second is the rendering which is faulty in some systems.
that is where you need the other fixes.
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