On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Baiju M wrote:
> > Locale for Malayalam is not available (I would like to make one,
> > can you give some pointer, how can I make a locale for Malayalam)
>
> A specification for the format of a locale file is at:
>
> http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/n897-14652w25.pdf
>
> It's not all the syntax, and other things like 'outdigit' for national
> digits are also supported. You should definitely look at other glibc
> locales for some hints (get them at your favourite GNU mirror, if not
> already installed on your Linux box).
For instance, you can refer to locale definition files for other
Indic scripts/languages (hi_IN, ta_IN,te_IN, mr_IN: they're usually in
/usr/share/i18n/locales). For your purpose at hand, (testing 'xkb' for
Malayalam input), you don't have to worry about getting all LC categories
right and can just copy 'i18n' (if you look at *_IN definition files,
you'll know what I mean.) After making the locale definition file, you
have to run 'localedef' (man localedef) to compile it. Just in case,
check the permission of ml_IN directory(usually in /usr/lib/locale
or /usr/share/locale) and files below it and make them readable by
non-root users.
As for XLC_LOCALE for ml_IN, only thing necessary at the moment
is just add the following two lines to locale.dir (at appropriate
positions. there are two sections in the file, one without ':'
and the other with ':') file in $XROOT/lib/X11/locale : usually
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale):
en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE ml_IN.UTF-8
en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE: ml_IN.UTF-8
Then, you can begin to work on xkb definition for ml_IN and try
it out under ml_IN.UTF-8 locale.
Jungshik
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