Displaying international characters in Firefox (installing unicode fonts in fontconfig)

Using unicode fonts is the easiest way to properly display hindi, arabic, hebrew and other non latin languages. We install the unicode fonts in a local directory and then tell fontconfig to look in that directory. Edit /etc/fonts/local.conf



/usr/ias/share/fonts/fc

Then tell fontconfig to rehash it's tables

[root@host] # fc-cache

Check that your new font is there

[root@host] # fc-list |grep

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Thomas Uphill

Thomas is a meat popsicle. Thomas started working with UNIX while at SFU and UBC in Vancouver. Starting out on IRIX, HPUX and Solaris, he quickly transitioned to Linux in the early 90s. He has been a System Administrator and a Developer working mainly in Python and C. He's written several technology books, many dealing with Puppet and Configuration Management.

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