Ubuntu – Hindi Font Problem in Chrome

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I am using Google Chrome. I am facing problem in using Hindi News. which shows bullets instead of proper hindi text. but this same thing is not happening with Firefox it shows Hindi font .

when i use https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts this in Firefox

Fonts In firefox

Font in Firefox

Fonts in Chrome

Font in Chrome

I used this site for solving this problem its tell me to modify .fonts.conf file
I'm currently working on font settings in XML (.fonts.conf). I noticed that after installing msttcorefonts things don't look quite as good in Firefox anymore. Most web pages request Arial which doesn't get hinted and anti-aliased too nicely, especially on LCD screens. I personally prefer the "sharp" non-anti-aliased look. i hate the new look which comes from this conf.

I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 32bit . the Font i am using in this version of Ubuntu are the latest . or i have to update my fonts . is there any new font look in Ubuntu

Best Answer

The Hindi font rendering problem in Chrome is already well-documented. There has been a bug report filed against this problem.

A workaround has been suggested in the bug report, but I consider it too drastic as it involves deleting a couple of fonts. Instead, we can achieve the same effect by renaming those fonts.

Enter these commands in a terminal:

sudo mv /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf.backup
sudo mv /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf.backup

The Google Chrome page after the above modification:

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