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? > > Yes. > I setup scim and am able to write in Kannada with transliteration in gedit > > Would appreciate any inputs on this. > In scim, you can configure additional languages support and specific layouts (inscript, various phonetic layouts) for each language. A good reference to this would be wikipedia article on scim[1]. If you can setup xkeyboard [2], you do not need to depend on scim/ibus for inputting if your preference is inscript. By selecting your language duing install time (from 11.04 for 10 indian languages), xkeyboard is setup automatically. Hope the above helps Arjun [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scim [2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config Thanks and regards, > Ramachandra > > On 06/23/2011 12:36 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Vividh Aditya >> <vividhadi...@netscape.net> wrote: >> >>> While, we are on the topic of Indic Fonts, is there any text editor >>> similar >>> to Takhti (for Windows), where I can write in Hindi with Unicode fonts >>> like >>> Mangal and Raghu. I miss the ease of Takhti in Ubuntu. While there is >>> obviously Google Transliteration, but needed an offline app. >>> >> transliteration or typing in hindi ?? >> >> if its typing in hindi then on most linux systems you can just type >> anywhere like यहाँ पर भी हिन्दी या कोई भी उपलब्ध भाषा लिखा जा सकता है। >> >> and while we are on languages people should check out goldendict - >> available in the repos - its allow use of off line dictionaries and >> has excellent support for hindi (can't say about other languages since >> none other indic ones are installed) >> >> >> Ram >> ______________________________**___________________________ >> http://www.munsiari.com >> >> > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in> >
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