0x25CC and Diwali
Posted by simonw on Mon 6 Nov 2006 at 09:48
The Wikipedia article on Diwali renders with unicode symbol 0x25CC missing on my unstable desktop in Firefox.
Can anyone shed a little light as to how I can make this symbol render as expected? And what process I could have used to answer this for myself.
Certain other browsers download fonts on demand - I wonder if that can be made to happen for Debian Iceweasel?
I miss being in Slough, Berkshire, during Diwali. The residents will no doubt again enjoy one of the best firework displays this year, as loads of people celebrate Diwali privately. One can go up the hill and look down on thousands of firewall parties, a truely amazing sight. No doubt there are other places in the world with even bigger celebrations. Exeter doesn't quite have the cultural diversity.
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You need to install indic fonts to view word diwali in hindi. Just type the command:
apt-get install ttf-indic-fonts
There is detailed article and you man need to make some changes to new browser (since it is based upon firefox, it should work)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_supp ort_for_Indic_scripts#Viewing_Indic_text_6
Regards,
nixCraft
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I already had ttf-indic-fonts installed, and I tried enabling Pango in Firefox (I think it is enabled anyway), but I still get the square with 25CC on the page with the suggestions.
If I try Epiphany it just entirely omits that symbol (the dotted circle).
The Diwali article at Wikipedia has been editted since, and now renders fine.
It isn't a major thing for me, but it seems odd that one character is rendering incorrectly, and I'm sure I'll learn something from the solution. Even if it is how not to put Indic fonts on webpages.
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Sorry about that. It is a combination of being extremely busy, and extremely lazy.
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