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Reading Anandabazar on Firefox/Linux

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    One of my major gripes after moving to full-time Linux was, I can't read the Bengali newspaper Anandabazar online anymore. They, absolutely utterly moronically, use a proprietary font (I'm sure someone there paid for it), which does not offer ANY extra advantage over using Unicode Bengali!!
     I started working on a python script that can translate those fonts to Unicode, and it was going well. But halfway through, I realized someone has already done this, and it is already available as a Mozilla extension.
     The extension is named padma, and it's targeting different Indian languages. Works great on Firefox. The download page is here. You'll need to restart Firefox after installing the extension.

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