Problems Viewing the Site?
Are you having problems with the site? If so then read on, because this should help you!
Firstly if you’re having any problems with the audio files then head over to this page here which gives a step by step solution and should get it working again!
Now this site uses Hindi letters (Devanagari), which is ‘foreign’ to most computers. So you might experience problems in correctly seeing the letters.
Most handheld devices, including the iPhone, will have problems displaying Hindi characters correctly!
If you don’t have the correct fonts installed you may see square boxes instead of the Devanagari characters, garbled random characters, incorrect characters or even nothing at all.
Devangari fonts are automatically installed on all Windows, Mac and Linux systems and should work perfectly in any internet browser. However Mobile phones, iPods, iPhones, iPads and many other handheld devises often don’t have Devangari installed or have very poor rending capabilities.
Unfortunately that means that this site loses a lot of its value when viewed though those devices. The only possible solution for this would be for me to display all Hindi as image files, this would not massively increase loading times for all the pages but would prevent people from working with the Hindi dispayed (ie copying and pasting into google) so it’s not something I’m going to consider for a while.
To test if you’re displaying Devagari characters correctly on your system I’ve created two example image files below showing what you should be seeing so you can compare that to what you are seeing.
Test 1:
What you should see:
Your computer displays:
क का कि की के कै कु कू को कौ कृ कं कँ कः
Test 2: (Taken from BBC Hindi)
What you should see:
Your computer displays:
बिहार में चुनाव 21 अक्तूबर से छह चरणों में
If you don’t see these the way you should then you don’t have Devanagari installed correctly on your computer! The first advice I can give is to visit Multilingual Support (Indic) on Wikipedia to try and find the issue. If that doesn’t solve your issue then feel free to tell me here explaining your problem and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
