[ubuntu-in] Typing in Indian Languages (was: need desktop search tool)

[Arjuna Rao Chavala]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:00 PM, KBS Ramachandra <ram at 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
>> <vividhaditya at 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
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