Re: [Indic-computing-users] unicode

[Keyur S. <key...@ya...>]

--- Viveka Nathan K <vi...@la...> wrote:
> 
> I did that export also. We have the iscii based translations, only for
> KOFFICE
> 
> GK:}or better still do a 
> GK:}  $ strace kword 2> /tmp/msg.log
> GK:}  and go through /tmp/msg.log to see if the Hindi mo files are
> GK:}accessed ?
> 
> I did that, it loads the mo files also.
> still all are boxes.

You need to setup font from KDE control centre:
Go to
  kcontrol -> Look&Feel -> Fonts

There set fonts for Menu, Toolbar, etc. to Raghindi font

> As I said in my previous mail, after converting iscii to unicode,
> for each iscii character, there are 3 characters available in
> unicode based po files. Is that the reason ?
> Will the application  accept 2 by 2 bytes for each input ?

You are getting 3 characters because in UTF-8 sequence each Indic Unicode
character is stored in 3 bytes. Read UTF-8 FAQ for more detail on UTF-8.

    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html

- Keyur


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