Problem viewing Tamil fonts in chromium on Ubuntu

I am the big fan of tamil love poems.. 😊 Within Google reader all tamil blogs fonts are displayed correctly in chromium which was downloaded from Ubuntu software center. But when I goto that link directly, that page is not rendered properly. It shows some junk character in between.

For example Initially this blog http://bit.ly/ndtgfq shown below

Tamil font is not rendered properly

But in the firefox its rendered correctly. It shows the fonts correctly. I solved this issue after little bit googling 😜

Here is the fix.

• Goto that directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/
• Delete both the FreeSerif.ttf and FreeSans.ttf file.

sudo rm -f /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf 
sudo rm -f /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf 

Then restart your browser. Now its shown correctly for me.

Tamil font displayed fine