For a number of projects I have been working on recently, I needed to have access to some Hindi text online - unfortunately, I could not view the text in my browser. Below are the steps that I took to remedy that.

Many sites use a unicode compliant Devanagari font. Unicode is a 16-bit encoding standard that allows all characters of every major language in the world to be represented. Unicode is platform independent, meaning if you typed something in Windows, it would appear the same way on a Macintosh machine. Most modern systems have built-in unicode support and often require nothing more than a unicode compliant font for any particular language.

If you can see the following sentence, then your computer should have no problems viewing such sites:

हिन्दी भारत की राष्ट्रभाषा है | (Hindi bhaarat kii raashtrabhaashaa hai)

If you cannot view the sentence above, try changing the font encoding to "UTF-8" in your browser. Most users should find this option by going to View > Encoding.

If you still are not able to view the sentence above, please try the following suggestions for your particular operating system.