[ubuntu-in] Tamil support: Ubuntu Drapper Beta

[Gora Mohanty]

--- Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> I have installed Ubuntu Dapper Beta on my T41. 
[...]

Welcome, and sorry for the delay in responding. I see that you have
got a few responses on the gnome-i18n list.

> I am currently testing tamil support in this distro. I have installed
> ttf-indic-fonts, scim, gnome-language-ta et. al.
[...]
> * In gnome-termial, when doing a cat on a tamil file, the "dots" are
> printed separately, and certain double-characters are interchanged:
> 
> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/tamil/terminal.jpg

That looks very much like it is using the wrong font, i.e., something
like Sans or freefont that has partial coverage of Tamil glyphs, rather
than the proper Tamil font included in ttf-indic-fonts. What does
"fc-list :lang=ta" show you?

> * Gnome tamil interface is also good. I still need clarification on
> couple of things:
> 
> 1. Gaim, Firefox and Gedit automatically do the translation as per
> our written tamil when I enter into US language (from gdm) and switch
> to tamil unicode keyboard typing:
> 
> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/tamil/text-editor.jpg
> 
> On the other hand, if I login into gdm with Tamil language gnome
> interface, the above automatic translation does not happen. I get the
> "o" and "oo" as unicode formats, as also seen from:
> 
> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/tamil/terminal.jpg
> 
> Why is this so?
[...]

I am sorry. I am unable to read Tamil, and cannot pinpoint the problem
here. If you can provide us a short UTF-8 Tamil file, a screenshot
showing the incorrect rendering, and, if possible, a screenshot of the
proper rendering, we can try to fix the problem. For proper Unicode
rendering of Tamil, you can try yudit, which can be installed from the
Synaptic package manager in Dapper, or obtained from http://yudit.org.

> 2. Not all gnome menus have been translated to tamil. Whom should I
> contact for this?

I presume that the reply you got on the gnome-i18n list covers this.
If not, please feel free to contact me by private email, and thanks
for volunteering to help out in the translations.

Regards,
Gora


		
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