Malayalam font

[Gerald Henriksen]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 07:43:39 +0530, you wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 8:10 PM Aaron LI <aly at aaronly.me> wrote:
>>
>> In a terminal, set the LANG environment variable (e.g., to en_US.UTF-8):
>>
>> For csh: setenv LANG en_US.UTF-8
>> For sh: export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> Then you can see new locale settings with the 'locale' command.
>>
>> And try to 'ls' your files to see whether you see the right characters.
>>
>
>Thank you :-)
>
>I tried it and now instead of
>
>03 - ????????? ?????????????????????????????? ???????????????
>?????????????????????????????? - ????????? ?????????????????????.pdf
>
>the file name shows up in terminal as
>
>03 - ___ ______ ___ ______ - __ _____.pdf
>
>Wondering if I should be using some other locale *not* starting with en_

The language of the local doesn't really matter, what matters is the
UTF-8 part which should allow the display of non-ASCII characters.

Just to double check, when you installed the font did it allow you to
see the proper characters in Chrome? (is the font installed properly)