Tuesday, August 4, 2009

How to view Tamil websites on your iPhone/iPod Touch

Note: You must have jail broken iPhone to follow these steps.

Before you proceed for following, please make sure you have installed OpenSSH.
If not, intall it from Cydia. Use WinSCP to connect your iPhone. If you are not sure hwo to SSH to iPhone, visit HERE. Someone has nicely guided.

Install fonts on iPhone
1. Connect to your iPhone using WinSCP via it’s IP address and use username: root, password: alpine
2. Navigate to this folder /System/Library/Fonts/ and overwrite the CGFontCache.plist with the modified CGFontCache.plist file (download here).
3. Now navigate /System/Library/Fonts/Cache and create a new folder MyFonts in the Cache folder. We’ll copy our new fonts in this folder so that they are easily identifiable and properly organized.
4. Copy all four Tamil fonts file (download here) to the MyFonts folder.
5. Restart/respring to and browse http://www.tamilnaatham.com/ to see the installed fonts work properly.

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