On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:00 PM, KBS Ramachandra <r...@meritsystems.com> wrote: > How do you enable typing in Indic languages directly? Is there a different > keyboard layout for each Indian language? > > I setup scim and am able to write in Kannada with transliteration in gedit > > Would appreciate any inputs on this.
Copy pasted from a mail on the list from a few days back (subject line "hindi fonts in Ubuntu") To enable typing in your language of choice go to System -> Preferences ->Keyboard The go to LAYOUTS - Add In Add you will be able to choose Country (India) and Variant (as in which specific indian language you need and which type of keyboard) For Inscript Hindi (keyboard layout attached) choose india or other hindi variants choose what ever you like. You can also print the Keyboard Layout for the menu option on the bottom left. Once this is done go back and then go to layout options - here you can select a combination of keys that moves between your default language layout (i presume us english) and the other language(s) you may be added. On my latop the right menu key is for hindi and the left windows button is for english - so it just becomes another few keys to use as part of my typing routine आसान naa. This will work system wide and one can even use it to make user names / passwords, folders, files, type in every conceivable software (i think) in your language of choice. Further you can right click on your desktop tool bar and add keyboard layout short cut to the panel. (in recent Ubuntu versions in appears once you select more than one layout) -- Ram _________________________________________________________ http://www.munsiari.com -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
