hi all,
i am trying to read some newspapers online through firefox and opera in my rhel 5 machine. My language is tamil. By default it will not support that. But i have downloaded the fonts. i put that *.ttf fonts in /usr/share/X11/fonts directory. But its not working? I tried by putting in /etc/fonts directory too. But still problem persists. How to resolve this?

Welcome to LQ.

1) su
2) yum search tamil
3) yum install fonts-tamil

.. provides /usr/share/fonts/tamil/lohit_ta.ttf

TTF fonts : If you have other fonts to install,
/usr/share/fonts/ or /usr/share/fonts/tamil/
is the place.

.. Good luck .. .. ..
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P.S. :
RHEL 5 install-disk-2: m17n-db-tamil-1.3.3-48.el5.noarch.rpm
RHEL 5 install-disk-3: fonts-tamil-2.3.1-1.el5.noarch.rpm
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as you told i have installed the rpms. Then i have done the following steps also.
1.mkdir /usr/share/fonts/tamil
2.cd /usr/share/fonts/tamil
3.mkfontdir .
Now it create a file named fonts.dir
4.ttmkfdir -0 /usr/share/fonts/tamil
Then it creates the file fonts.scale
5.chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/tamil
the path will be added into the font path. We can check it out with the following command
6.chkfontpath
7.service xfs restart

i am using gnome desktop. So i logged out and logged in one time. Now it works fine. I could read the tamil newspapers.
Thanks

In fact you don't usually have to do anything.

As long as the TTF fonts are present in /usr/share/fonts/

Restarting Firefox is all it takes.

oh...anyway i got something from the google search. i learned something new and it works fine. Thanks again to you