[ubuntu-in] Typing and more importantly reading in Malayalam

[Carthik Sharma]

On 3/29/06, Gora Mohanty <gora_mohanty at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> --- Carthik Sharma <carthik at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > I was trying to help with translating Dapper into Malayalam at the
> > Rosetta page for a package.
> >
> > My biggest problem is that on Firefox, the text in Malayalam is
> > really screwed up.
> [...]
> > The Malayalam test is sort of garbled. Let me explain this in detail:
> > The vowel-qualifiers are misplaced.
>
> >From your description, the Firefox that you are using is probably not
> Indic-enabled. Mozilla, and Firefox can handle Indic text quite well,
> but need to be specially compiled with support for Pango or for the
> m17n library. Which version of Firefox, and what distribution are you
> using? I believe that the Firefox in Ubuntu Breezy is Indic-enabled,
> but
> that was not the case earlier.

Thanks for the response -

I use firefox 1.5.0.1 installed per instructions from
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion

Would you know if this one is pango-ified?