This font is shown in garbage characters in PDF

Hello PDF Gurus,
We are having a very unusual problem which causing level 1 support alarms. It's very simple. We have a PDF which uses a Sinhala Font called FM_Bindumathi.TTF. It can downloaded from here http://www.fonts2u.com/download/fmbindumathi-x.font .
When we view this PDF using Google Chrome browser it shows correctly.
But when we view this PDF using IE8 / Firefox8 (using Adobe plugins) we get garbage characters.
Appaarently Google Chrome does not use Adobe Reader 9 but it's own plug-in. Both IE and Firefox uses the Adobe Reader 9 plugin.
We deinstalled and reinstalled the font. But it's still not working.
What could be the problem here?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My OS is Windows XP SP 3.
Thanks
Peter

Hmm. An interesting PDF.
This really shouldn't be working at all. The technique used in making the PDF is only for Latin 1 fonts (western european) and is not supposed to work with any other kind of properly made font. However, the font is not properly made. It lies about its Unicode points, and pretends it is offering normal Latin 1 letters. This trick can sometimes work. It's almost the only trick in town if the font is outside Unicode - I don't recognise the alphabet so I can't say.
Your problem is that the full name of the font once installed is not FMBindumathi but FMBindumathi x (space, lower case x). The x is wrong, too: it is supposed to be a font style like Light or Regular. Some applications seem to be able to find the font by ignoring the (wrong) style but Acrobat doesn't. If I changed the PDF to have space x in the name, it started displaying this.
For Oracle to really support non-Latin 1 fonts would require that the software did something very much more complicated - and this font wouldn't work.

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