Gora Mohanty said on Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 01:35:49PM +0530,: > The latter would need changes to the console text-handling code, > probably along similar lines of using a 8-bit font with a custom > keymap. I am not sure, but think that text handling in the Linux > console is handled by the kernel itself, so having changes accepted > might not be easy.
This was attempted by an IIT Chennai (IIRC) team several years back, and their proposals / patches were shot down by Linus Torvalds, on grounds that the patches do not belong within the Kernel. > As Gaurav notes, Abhishek has worked on this. The Debian folk have > also managed to get Hindi support in their installer. I am not sure > how this is done, but I think that they run Pango, or a similar > library on top. Yes; Debian has the GUI based installer as an option nowadays. Most Indic languages, Including Malayalam, are well supported there. I mention ML because ML is one of the more poorly supported languages in other areas, though it is catching up pretty fast, thanks to the SMC team. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself. _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
