Solving Bangla font viewing problem on Mozilla Firefox

Nowadays Bangla fonts are widely used on web. In fact, many websites, particularly Bangla blog, review, and news portal, websites have started using Bangla fonts. You may even find textbooks of primary to higher secondary level online. However, many of us still don’t know how to properly view Bangla fonts on Mozilla Firefox or other web browsers.

Here are the steps to view Bangla fonts on Mozilla Firefox

1. You need unicode Bangla font installed on your web browser in order to view a website in Bangla. SolaimanLipi is the mostly widely used unicode Bangla font. However, if a particular Bangla website is using a different font, a font installation prompt should appear soon as you open that website. You should install the font or you can download this font clicking here. If you install this font while your browser is open, restart the browser for the changes to take effect. You should be able to see the Bangla text properly now.

2. To install any font, just copy the .ttf file and paste that to ‘Fonts’ folder (C:\WINDOWS\Fonts). Alternatively, you can open ‘Fonts’ folder in control panel and paste the .ttf font file in it.

3. After installing the font(s), if you are still having difficulties viewing Bangla texts properly, you need to go to your browser Settings option. To go to settings of your browser, for instance on Mozilla Firefox,
‘Tools>Options….>Content>advanced’. Now choose ‘SolaimanLipi’ from the drop down menu of ‘Sans Serif’ option. Then choose ‘SolaimanLipi’ from the drop down menu of ‘Monospace’ option. After that choose Unicode (UTF-8) from the drop down menu of ‘Default character encoding’ option. That’s all. See if there is any tick mark on the check box of ‘Allow websites to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above’.

After changing this setting, restart your browser for better result. This will work on all versions of Mozilla Firefox.

You might like to read How to write Bangla on computer or smartphone.

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