മൈക്രോസോഫ്റ്റ് വിൻഡോസിൽ മലയാളം കോൺഫിഗർ ചെയ്യുന്നത് (Configuring Malayalam on Windows)

Installing Malayalam Unicode font on Windows

1. 1. Clik "Start Menu" and select "Control Panel"
2. 2. Choose "Regional Language Options" as follows
a)If you are using the "Category View" of control panel, following steps are for you


1. Date, Time, Language and Regional Options on Control Panel (Category View)




2. Regional and Language Options (Category View)
b) Or you can choose it easily from the "Classic View" of control panel as below



1. Regional and Language Options on Control Panel (Classic View)
3. 3. Choose Languages Tab
4. 4. Check the check box Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai) as below


5. 5. Click here to download "Anjali Old Lipi" font
6. 6. Copy it to "C:\Windows:\Fonts"

Note: If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer alone for browsing Malayalam, the above steps from 1 to 4 are not important. The steps 1 to 4 is for the Windows XP SP2 users and it may differ for later versions of Windows

Configuring Malayalam for Internet Explorer

1. 1. Right click on the "Internet Explorer" icon on the desktop and choose "Properties"



Note: You can also select Internet Options from "Control Panel"-->"Internet Options". Vista users can follow that.

2. 2. Click on the "Font" button on the "Appearance" section on the "General" tab of the "Internet Options" dialog



3. 3. Select "Malayalam" from "Language script" combo box
4. 4. Choose "AnjaliOldLipi" on the "Webpage font" list box
5. 5. Click "OK" on "Fonts" dialog and "Internet Options"

Note: Please note that you can configure any language to Internet Explorer as above. All you need to know which font is to be set as default font. This help is prepared using Internet Explorer 7, but it is similar in Internet Explorer 6 also. Previous versions prior to IE6 will not support Malayalam

Configuring Malayalam for Firefox 2.0

1. 1. Click on "Options" from Tools menu on Firefox
2. 2. Select on the "Content" tab and set the "Default Font" as "Anjali Old Lipi"


3. 3. Click on "Advanced" button. You will get a window as below



4. 4. Choose "Malayalam" in the "Fonts for" dropdown box
5. 5. Set "Propotional" font to "Sans Serif" and set other fonts to "Anjali Old Lipi"
6. 6. Check "Allow pages to choose their...." checkbox
7. 7. Set "Default Character Encoding" to "UTF8"
8. 8. Click "OK". You have completed configuring Malayalam on FF2

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