[ubuntu-in] Loaded Ubuntu 7.10 in my desktop

[Venkatesh Nandakumar]

Dinbandhu wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

There's something called "Ubuntu Restricted Extras" under add/remove
programs.. when installed, which i did at the very beginning, installs
all the proprietary codecs.. which is really useful.. Maybe they should
include that option at the first-time boot itself.

Venkatesh Nandakumar