BBC Hindi Content At MSN India
MSN India has inked a deal with BBC World Service for local language Hindi news content from BBC Hindi (formerly BBC Patrika) to be made available at MSN Hindi.
The strange thing is - advertising on MSN Hindi, and indeed Yahoo Hindi, is in English. So who is the target audience then? People who want to read Hindi, but are also comfortable with English? Maybe it’s a font thing, but one issue I see with Hindi portals is that script is almost never textbook Hindi. Take a look at the MSN Hindi logo. Maybe it’s because I don’t have the right fonts installed - but that’s a problem that a lot of others are going to face.
Update: As Surender points out in the comments - it text looks fine with Internet Explorer, which is what most people use. However, it doesn’t work with Opera and Firefox.
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Comments (3)
May 28, 2007 2:01 AM
You are seeing this in Firefox or Opera. It’s a common problem with Firefox. Try seeing it in IE. It should just be perfect. Also try switching Encoding to Unicode (UTF8).
May 28, 2007 3:18 AM
Am using FF, and didn’t work with Opera either, even after changing the encoding to UTF8. IE looking just fine. Thanks for the headsup.
May 29, 2007 8:50 AM
Nikhil,
Mozilla Firefox supports most Indic languages. Hindi (Devanagari) rendering on Firefox is currently quite satisfactory, although there are a few placement quirks. If rendering in Firefox appears to be incorrect, please ensure that complex script support has been installed (see below).
यदि आप हिन्दी पढने का प्रयास कर रहे है, तो ओपेरा का उप्योग न करे क्योन्की ओपेरा मे, मात्राओ का विभाजन सही प्रकार मे नही होता है । उदाहरणत:, ‘हिन्दी’, ‘हनिदी’ जैसा दिखाई पड्ता है ।
Opera is not recommended for Hindi scripts, as it mixes the ‘matraas’ (vowels) in a strange pattern. For example, ‘Hindi’ is read as ‘Hanidi’.
Windows XP:
Go to Start > Control Panel > Language, and Regional Options
Select “Add other languages”
Check “Install files for complex script…”
Click OK, and insert your Windows CD if prompted
Source: Wikipedia