[Indic-computing-users] Indian language solutions in GNU/Linux

[Frederick N. <fr...@by...>]

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If you are running RedHat 8.0, Debian 3.0 SuSE 8.1 or Mandrake 9.0 you don't
need to do anything but the single line that is part of my earlier mail.
Just type that out on console in you X Session and your keyboard and font
parameter are set. If you also set LANG environment then you would also get
the menu in hindi
the to steps are:

setxkbmap -layout dev -option grp:ctrl_shift_toggle
export LANGI=hi_IN
making a suppostion that you would be running bash as default shell



Supreet





On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 10:23:33AM +0530, Ravikant wrote:
> 
> Dear Supreet,
> 
> Great news! I checked the links you sent. But I'm too techno-deficient to make 
> sense of it. Have you tested it yet? I want to test it. Could you tell me 
> how? In the meanwhile I have downloaded Openoffice Hindi. It is working fine 
> on my office windows. It seems some German guy with a Sanskritoid Hindi has 
> done the translations of po files. And it is partial at the moment. Lot of 
> work left to be done. I'm going to work on it.
> 
> I can't wait to run a linux hindi desktop. Would you have time to come and 
> install it for me?
> 
> How is your preparation going? 
> 
> Cheers
> ravikant
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday 31 Oct 2002 2:25 am, Supreet wrote:
> > Linux now has support for unicode indic support. For now the list includes
> > devanagri (marathi and hindi)
> > bengali
> > gujrati
> > and gurumukhi
> > .
> > ----------
> > <technical description of level of support>
> > any application based on pango 1 and gtk 2 which majorly includes almost
> > all gnome applications can support hindi support.
> > to switch keyboard
> > setxkbmap -layout dev -option grp:ctrl_shift_toggle
> > in case of devanagri
> > keyboard interface is part of Xfree86 4.2.0.
> > or it can be download from www.indlinux.org??
> >
> >
> > -------------
> > to use this facility switch to any distro which has gtk2 support.
> > debian support URL:
> >  deb http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian woody gnome2
> >  for gentoo URL:
> >  http://www.gentoo.org/~spider/
> >  for redhat URL:
> >  http://www.ximian.com/products/redcarpet/download.html
> >
> >  minimum requirement is RedHat 7.2 or higher
> >
> >
> >
> >  RedHat 8.0 standard ships with both pango gtk2 and Xfree86 4.2.0 so it
> > works in RedHAt 8.0 out of the box
> >
> > Mozilla also has support for language pack for hindi check mozilla site for
> > it.
> > www.mozilla.org
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