[gentoo-user] Indian Language Support in GNOME 2.4 / XFCE4

[Aniruddha Shankar]

Easier to read version of this mini-HOWTO and comments at:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=133464

Indian Language support in GNOME2.4 & XFCE4

This mini-HOWTO details the steps involved in getting Indian language 
support in Gentoo Linux - as of this time of writing (KDE 3.2), KDE does 
not yet support Indian languages with anything like the ease with which 
they are supported in GNOME. We will be using Indlinux 0.73 which can be 
downloaded here.

Guntupalli Karunakar is the dude who packages Indlinux and writes the 
install scripts.. I've just modified them so that they work on Gentoo, 
that's all. All credit should go to him. Thanks also to Mary for first 
helping me install Indlinux on Gentoo and showing me the correct way to 
install fonts.

You have to be root to install IndLinux. Create a temporary directory 
and download the tarball there. Enter the directory and unpack the 
tarball using:
Code:
tar xvzf Indlinux-Hindi-0.73.tar.gz
cd Indlinux-Hindi-0.73
In this directory, you'll find scripts to install Indlinux. DO NOT RUN 
THESE SCRIPTS. They are designed for RedHat / Mandrake / Debian. We need 
to edit these scripts before running em or duplicate the commands they 
issue manually.

    * Installing the locale
      Edit inslocale.sh
      Code:
      $EDITOR inslocale.sh
      In this file, edit LOCALEDIR so that it points to /usr/share/locale
      Run inslocale.sh
      Code:
      inslocale.sh
    * Installing the fonts
      Code:
      cd fonts
      cp -Rv indic /usr/share/fonts/
      Code:
      $EDITOR /etc/X11/fs/config
      in the catalogue section of this file, add 
/usr/share/fonts/default/pango-fonts-0.3/indic and 
/usr/share/fonts/indic/OpenType
      Make sure that the last line in the catalogue section is the only 
one that does not end with a comma. all other lines have to end with a 
comma.

      Code:
      catalogue =/usr/share/fonts/default/pango-fonts-0.3/indic,
              /usr/share/fonts/indic/OpenType
      Restart the X Font Server and, just to be on the safe side, 
re-initialise the font cache...
      Code:
      /etc/init.d/xfs restart
      fc-cache -fv

    * Install the Keymap
      Code:
      cd ..
      inskeymap.sh
      You will need to add GKB - the keyboard switching layout tool - 
to the Gnome panel. In GNOME, right click on the panel - Add -> Utility 
->Keyboard layout switcher. Then right click on the GKB applet, select 
Prefrences , click Add. Then add all the Indic layouts. Indic options 
are avaialble as Hindi -> India -> Hindi inscript xkbmap. Indic GKB 
settings will be available by default in future versions of Gnome. If 
anyone is using XFCE4 and wants to know how to easily switch language 
layouts, please mail or pm me.

    * Install the Translations
      Code:
      cd trans
      if /usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES doesnt exist then create it, 
using
      Code:
      mkdir -p /usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES

      Code:
      cp  -v mo-2.4/*.mo /usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES
      cp -v xfcemo/*.mo /usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES
      cd ..
      $PAGER README
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