On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 12:44 +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: [...] > I still have some problem with keyboard layouts. I use phonetic layout > most of the time but I still do not know where some of the letters > are. It will be useful if somebody could pass an image file that gives > the keyboard layout.
What keyboard layout are you using? If you are not sure, maybe you could tell us how you start up the Hindi keyboard part, and how you would type a Hindi word, say "namaste". > The second problem is that gnome-terminal does not show hindi text > correctly. I use mutt for my e-mail and open it on > gnome-terminal. Hindi text is not readable there. The half letters > come only with a "halant", and the "matras" are also not correctly > placed. How does one extend hindi support to gnome-terminal? [...] Unfortunately, that is not a problem that can be easily fixed. >From my understanding gnome-terminal cannot be easily fixed to do proper rendering of Unicode, OpenType fonts, which is currently needed to handle Indian languages. Probably the best solution would be to develop a TrueType/console font for Hindi, but that is a lot of work. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
