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Did wordpress upgrade destroy all your unicode posts ?

I upgraded wordpress software for this blog to version 2.5.2. After that none of the posts that had devanagari (unicode) text looked okay. After comparing the configuration files, I discovered that the troubling variable is DB_CHARSET. The default config setting is ‘utf8′. But if you have been updating the software versions, your database table is [...]

Posted 27 April 2008 † amit § Internet ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

श्री गणपती आरती

ध्वनी मुद्रित
सुखकर्ता दुखहर्ता वार्ता विघ्नांची
नुरवी पुरवी प्रेम कृपा जयाची |
सर्वांगी सुंदर उटी शेंदुराची,
कंठी झळके माळ मुक्ताफळांची॥१॥
जय देव जय देव जय मंगलमूर्ती|
दर्शनमात्रे मनकामना पुरती ॥धृ॥
रत्नखचित फरा तुज गौरीकुमरा|
चंदनाची उटी कुमकुम केशरा|
हिरेजडित मुकुट शोभतो बरा |
रुणझुणती नूपुरे चरणी घागरिया|
जय देव जय देव जय मंगलमूर्ती ॥२॥
लंबोदर पीतांबर फणिवरबंधना |
सरळ सोंड वक्रतुंड त्रिनयना|
दास रामाचा वाट पाहे सदना|
संकटी [...]

Posted 15 September 2007 † amit § ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Fix maharashtratimes.com font problems on firefox

Maharshtratimes.com (or maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com) is a marathi news website using unicode fonts. But it does not display correctly on firefox browser. The problem is because of a single HTML div which uses justified font style. It displays correctly on IE (which is why it is not getting fixed) - this could be because of firefox’s buggy [...]

Posted 14 March 2007 † Administrator § India § Programming § Scripting § webdev ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

Search the web for devanagari words.

I created a small form using which you can search the web for unicode devanagari words. It is very cumbersome to actually enter unicode devanagari characters using qwert keyboards, so I have adopted the phonetic transliteration scheme from Manogat website. Do give it a try:
http://amit.chakradeo.net/search/
Start typing devanagari words phonetically and you will see unicode characters [...]

Posted 20 December 2006 † amit § India § Internet § software ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , ,