Making Telugu unicode work in your browser

If you are unable to read this magazine in unicode version, then here are some instructions for making your web browser unicode-friendly. Please note that these instructions apply only to major operating systems of Microsoft Windows. Further the following assumes that your browser is Internet Explorer. For help with other browsers and Operating Systems, please visit Wikipedia.

Windows 98

  1. Make sure that your Internet Explorer version is latest. At least 6.0. (open Internet Explorer, Click on Help in top menu and then click on "About Internet Explorer" to see the version of Internet Explorer);
  2. If the version is not 6.0 or more then you need to upgrade it. Try the following link. IE upgrade 
  3. Now we need a font for Windows 98. Download guatami fonts from here ( Gautami font from Golden Web )
  4. Install the font. (Start > Control Panel > Fonts > install new font )
  5. Now download the following file and unzip to get usp10.dll. usp10.dll
  6. Now place this usp10.dll file in "c:\program files\Internet Explorer" folder.
  7. Close all Internet Explorer sessions and restart it.

That's it! Now you should read telugu in your Internet Explorer.

Windows XP

Microsoft Windows XP come with full support of unicode for Telugu, and also with a font called Gautami by default.

Windows 2000

Windows 2000 include a feature called Windows File Protection (WFP), part of the System File Checker, which is intended to avoid some of the common DLL consistency issues. However, this feature makes replacing usp10.dll a major pain. Hopefully the following steps will help you. Contact us if you still can’t get Telugu unicode work for you.

  1. Make sure that your Internet Explorer version is latest. At least 6.0. (open Internet Explorer, Click on Help in top menu and then click on "About Internet Explorer" to see the version of Internet Explorer);
  2. If the version is not 6.0 or more then you need to upgrade it. Try the following link. IE upgrade 
  3. Now download the following file and unzip to get usp10.dll and a replaceUsp batch file. replaceUsp.zip
  4. Unzip the  downloaded replaceUsp.zip into a temp directory (like c:\temp directory)
  5. Run the replaceUsp.bat script.
  6. Close all IE sessions and restart IE.

Now you should be able to read telugu on windows2000.