<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Gora Mohanty <<a href="mailto:gora@sarai.net">gora@sarai.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:11:30 +0900 "Pratik Narain Srivastava" <<a href="mailto:pratik.narain@gmail.com">pratik.narain@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Dear friends, > > Is there a way to install and configure hindi as the UI language > for one user account and english for other so that when the hindi > user(my mom) logs into her account, she can use hindi and when I > log in to my user account, I can use english. The change is > wanted just for the user interface. For websites, I think I can > use google translate service. Thanx. </div>[...] Hindi on Ubuntu should be reasonably usable. Use the Synaptic package manager to search for, and install all Hindi-related packages (search for "Hindi", or "-hi" in the package name). After that, one should be able to choose a language while logging in, and set that as the default for that account. What applications would she be using? To the best of my knowledge, the localise interface should be 80+% complete, and most applications should work, including OpenOffice. Unless she is already used to typing in Hindi on a computer, perhaps her biggest difficulty will be getting used to that. </blockquote></div> Easier would be System>>Administration>>Language Support>>Install/Remove languages. Install Hindi with translations, extra fonts and input methods. Then move Hindi to the top of the list in the System>>Administration>>Language Support>>Language for menus and windows (drag and drop) in your mother's account. Once she logs out and logs back in, Hindi should be the first preference with English as the fallback. Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065