Quoting Davide Viti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 07:12:54AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Welcome, then, to Tamil as a "soon supported" language in Debian > > Installer. And congratulations to Damodharan Rajalingam who > > coordinated (and continues to coordinate) this work. > > yes, congratulations! > I'm interested to be prepared to support Tamil in g-i. > What I'd like to know is if it can share the same fonts as one of > the languages already supported and, eventually, which fonts we should > use.
The fonts have to be different as Tamil is a different script than Hindi/Bengali (Devanagari script) or Punjabi (Gurmukhi script). The package you need is ttf-tamil-fonts. It features a "lohit_ta" font as well as some others: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-tamil-fonts/TAMu_Kadampari.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-tamil-fonts/TAMu_Kalyani.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-tamil-fonts/TAMu_Maduram.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-tamil-fonts/TSCu_Comic.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-tamil-fonts/TSCu_Paranar.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-tamil-fonts/TSCu_Times.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-tamil-fonts/TSCu_paranarb.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-tamil-fonts/TSCu_paranari.ttf Just install the package, then display ta.po and hi/bn/pa_IN.po....the difference is noticeable even for us who can't read any of these (the difference between hi/bn and pa_IN is less obvious....) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
