Comments on: Malayalam Wikipedia http://blogs.potsdam.edu/wikipediaoffline/2010/09/08/malayalam-wikipedia/ Just another blogs.potsdam.edu weblog Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:09:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Kelson http://blogs.potsdam.edu/wikipediaoffline/2010/09/08/malayalam-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Kelson Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:09:04 +0000 http://blogs.potsdam.edu/wikipediaoffline/?p=18#comment-21 "Existing offline reader software such as Kiwix could not be used." Kiwix can perfectly be used for Malayalam. The issue is that the default font for Malayalam on Windows is bad, so you need in the dump to force (with CSS) the font to another (free) one. This is not done per default neither on Wikipedia nor on ZIM. The problem is fixed in this version: http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/wikipedia_ml_all_06_2010_beta1.zim “Existing offline reader software such as Kiwix could not be used.”

Kiwix can perfectly be used for Malayalam.

The issue is that the default font for Malayalam on Windows is bad, so you need in the dump to force (with CSS) the font to another (free) one.

This is not done per default neither on Wikipedia nor on ZIM. The problem is fixed in this version:
http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/wikipedia_ml_all_06_2010_beta1.zim

]]>