On Monday 23 April 2001 19:12, Kingsly John wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Diwakar Ranganathan wrote:
>  |comrades, i've written a mini Linux FAQ in Tamil. i
>
> Cool!
>
>  |i have no chance of wordprocessing in Tamil in linux
>  |right now. therefore, using Lyx or any other proggie
>  |to prepare the Tamil FAQ using the font (with an
>  |encoding which is not supported by any Tamil editor
>  |for Linux) is an impossible task for me.
>
> Ensure that the font you use is a standard one... and is unicode
> compliant.

I think that a mandrake 7.2 install comes with a unicode compliant tamil font 
for the console... try a 'setfont tamil'

I don't know how you could use this of course, but I know it's there.  :)

-Faisal.


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