How to Read
- Download the latest unicode font AnjaliOldLipi and save in Windows Font folder.
- Restart the Computer.
- In Internet Explorer go to Tools, Internet Options, Fonts, Select Malayalam from the pull down menu and select AnjaliOldLipi as the font.
In fact, any Malayalam unicode font including the default font Kartika, shipped with the Windows should do the trick. However, Kartika being the modern lipi, most people prefer AnjaliOldLipi.
How to Solve the Font Issue
For some of the readers, the chillu letters will appear as letter+chandrakkala, instead of the proper chillu. If this happens,
- Make sure that you deleted any old AnjaliOldLipi font from the Windows font folder and installed the latest one.
- If step 1 did not solve the problem, it could be because you have an older version of usp10.dll file in the Windows/System32 folder. Download and unzip this file. Eventhough, this is an exe file you can unzip it. You will find a usp10.cab file. Unzip that too to get the usp10.dll file. Remember the location you saved it.
- Download and run this program. You will be asked the location of the new usp10.dll file.
- After installation cancel the Windows warning and choose to keep the new file.
- Restart the computer.
If everything went alright, you should be able to read the proper chillu in the sentence below. Else, you might still have an older version of usp10.dll somewhere in your computer. Do a search for usp10.dll and check the version of the other files (right click, properties, version). It should be 1.47 or later. If not, at this point, just replacing all of them with the new version and restarting might work. Please read the comments
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