Tamil fonts not displayed properly in browsers in linux Once i came to know about tamil lyricist Arivumathis blog. So, i open it in my browser but tamil fonts are not shown properly. The fonts are either like a rectangle or torn. I try to see the blogpost in tamil properly, and atlast i got the following solution.. The solution is removing the Freesans, Freeserif fonts from your linux system(BOSS, ubuntu, all debian derived linux). These fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont directory. Either remove the fonts by deleting it or copy it to some other place but not in the fonts directory. Thats all now the blog is shown well in tamil. the following images are Tamil blog with tamil font rendering problem Tamil blog after font problem fixed download file now