[ubuntu-in] Loaded Ubuntu 7.10 in my desktop

[Dinbandhu]

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 07:59 +0530, 74yrs old wrote:
> Whether Telugu and kannada display correctly in the latest version? Is
> there phonetic keyboard layout for Telugu and Kannada - similar to
> Baraha type in Windows?  Because Ubuntu 7.04 does not display
> character map correctly and there is no phonetic keyboard for Kannada
> just like baraha type for windows and as such I am not happy. 

As per my experience, the character map for Indian languages works just
fine in Ubuntu 7.04. Did you do the install of baraha for SCIM which we
had set up a few months back? Now, I have only tested the Hindi version.
But I can tell you that the character map for Hindi is perfect-- an
exact mirror image of Baraha Windows. And once Gora and I got the Hindi
version proper, then she applied that map to all the remaining Indian
languages. And at that point, she requested on this very forum that all
interested parties should please test the languages they know and give
feedback. I am not aware that anyone came forward with feedback for
those languages. If there are problems with the Kannada or Telugu
versions, then that was the time you should have brought detailed report
just as I had done with the Hindi. I am guessing that Kannada and Telugu
as well as the rest of the maps should be mostly correct. There are
probably a few small changes that need to be made, because of certain
difference between Devanagari and these languages' alphabets. But it is
not much difference. Why don't you come forward and do the work to check
them? I do not know these languages otherwise I would have done it
myself. But it is not the fault of Ubuntu 7.04. There is no such system
problem at all. And the software is written. It only needs someone to
carefully go through the map and point out the probably 7 or 8 simple
corrections that need to be made. And then the work will be done--
permanently. For it will apply to all future versions of Ubuntu as well.
In fact, I think SCIM works for all various Linux distributions. So why
don't you come forward and test Kannada and Telugu and let us know
exactly where the problems are--which letters are wrong--so the matter
will be solved.

Regards,
Swarup