Greetings! I have installed Ubuntu Dapper Beta on my T41 and running Gnome. Installation was smooth. Treat me as a "new be" here.
I am currently testing tamil support in this distro with gnome. I have installed ttf-indic-fonts, scim, gnome-language-ta et. al. My inferences/doubts: 1. Able to use tamil keyboard input (UTF-8) with Gedit, Gaim, Abiword, Vim and Mozilla Firefox. 2. Have setup CAPS lock key to switch between US and tamil unicode. 3. In gnome-termial, when doing a cat on a tamil file, the "dots" for letters are printed separately, and certain double-characters are interchanged: http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/tamil/terminal.jpg ... (I) 4. Gnome tamil interface is also good. I still need clarification on couple of things: Gaim, Firefox and Gedit automatically do the translation as per our written tamil when I enter into US language (from gdm) and switch to tamil unicode keyboard typing: http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/tamil/text-editor.jpg ... (II) On the other hand, if I login into gdm with Tamil language gnome interface, the above automatic translation does not happen. I get the "o" and "oo" as unicode formats, as also seen from: http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/tamil/terminal.jpg Why is this so? I'd like to use tamil gnome interface and also be able to get the written tamil form for "o" and "oo" appended to the characters. How can this be fixed? 5. Not all gnome menus have been translated to tamil. Whom should I contact for this? 6. I am interested in a typing tutor for Tamil. I have looked at Klavaro, and it uses UTF-8. But, again with UTF-8, the text displayed is very different from our written tamil (I). Is there any way we can write a gnome application for touch typing for Tamil with the actual written form as seen in (II)? 7. What is the format in which a language dictionary should be written, so that it can be imported from other necessary gnome applications? 8. Is there a letter pronounciation gnome package for teaching letters/pronounciation of words of a language that I am not aware of? Appreciate any feedback. Apologize for any incorrect terminology used as I am very new to this. Thanking you, SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
