Re: [Indic-computing-users] Re: Abiword :Devanagari, Marathi Translation

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:17:10 +0000 (GMT)
Andrew Dunbar <hip...@ya...> wrote:

>  --- jitendra <jit...@vs...> wrote:
> > Dear Andrew
> > Thank you so much.
> 
> You're welcome.  I'm very eager to see Indic languages
> working in AbiWord and other free software.
> 
> > How exactly does one chose a keyboard.
> > I work on both Windows and Linux.
> 
> On Linux there are different programs and procedures
> for the console and for X Windows.  I'm pretty sure
> there are newer easier ways now for both Gnome and
> KDE too.  But I'm assuming for now that Indic keyboard
> layouts are not included.  I don't have the answers
> right here but perhaps next week I may since then I
> will have my own computer and internet connection for
> a short while.
> 
> On Windows it depends which version.  95, 98, 2000,
> etc all have slightly different ways of choosing the
> keyboard layout but you can always find them by
> looking
> in "Control Panel".  Windows 2000 and Windows XP
> definitely do have Hindi and Sanskrit support - you
> may need the install CD though.
> 
> > I have yudit which has the keyboard for devanagari.
> 
> Yudit has its own keymaps because it supports many
> languages which the OSes do not support directly.
> AbiWord currently does not do this but I feel it will
> have to at some point.  You might want to file a bug
> report at http://bugzilla.abisource.com
> 

 We already have inscript keymaps ( xkb & xmodmap ) available for all
indian languages, some of them have now become part of XFree86 ( dev,
guj, gur, tml, ben  in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols ), Kannada,
Telugu , Malayalam & Oriya are also coming up soon .
 More info is available at  http://www.indlinux.org/keymap/keymaps.php
 Gkb setting for GNOME are also ready, should come up by Gnome 2.2
release

> 
> You ought to know that we are just now working on
> Pango/FreeType support so rendering Devanagari is
> going
> to be quite buggy for a while but having people trying
> to use AbiWord and filing bug reports will help very
> much.  Getting actual Indian hackers working on
> AbiWord
> would be a dream come true!
>
 Not been using Abiword for a while, will check out this latest one..

Regards,
Karunakar

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