[Indic-computing-users] GNU/Linux... unicode Indic support

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

This is a note from one of the lists I'm on... sorry I knocked off the
original poster's name by mistake... FN

Linux now has support for unicode indic support. For now the list includes
devanagri (marathi and hindi)
bengali
gujrati
and gurumukhi
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<technical description of level of support>
any application based on pango 1 and gtk 2 which majorly includes almost al=
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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=E0=A4


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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
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 minimum requirement is RedHat 7.2 or higher
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 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