To view the Indian language characters, you need Open Type Fonts (OTF fonts). A variety of Open Type Fonts are available for different Indian Languages.

Windows XP users need not worry about the Indian Language fonts. The 'Arial Unicode MS' font file that comes with Windows XP has font glyphs for all Indian Languages.

Please let us know if there are any free OTF fonts for other Indian Languages.We encourage free OTF fonts.

Raghu.ttf is a free OTF for Hindi which can be downloaded from the following site

Script	Indian Languages that use this script	Font Name	Website URL
Devanagari	Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi	Raghu	http://www.rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/download/font/raghu.ttf

1. Go to Start --> Control Panel --> Fonts


2. Go to file --> Install New Font


3. Browse to the directory where you downloaded the fonts and click on the 'ok' button.


4. Restart the browser, if it is open already.

1. Copy the fonts to /usr/share/fonts/ttf or /usr/local/fonts/ttf. If you don't see the directory ttf in either of these paths, create it.


2. Change to the directory where the fonts are copied.
   cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf or
   cd /usr/local/fonts/ttf


3. Run the following commands from the shell prompt:
   ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
   mkfontdir
   Note: If you view the directory, you should see two new files 'fonts.scale' and 'fonts.dir'.


4. Redhat users can directly run this command:
   chkfontpath -a /usr/share/fonts/ttf or
   chkfontpath -a /usr/local/fonts/ttf
   
   If you don't have the chkfontpath command, you will have to edit the file /etc/X11/xfs/config (or /etc/X11/fs/config), find the line which starts with "catalog=", and add your directory at the end of the list, separated by a comma.


5. Restart the xfs server.