On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:43:51PM +0530, Ravi Kumar wrote: > Recently I recieved by post a CD from the Govt Of India which > contained OpenOffice.Org (Bharatheeyam), a bundle containing Hindi > fonts from CDAC and Modular Infotech, some programs which aids in > typing in Hindi and so on. I installed the programs (which were > available for both Linux and Windows) on my machine. > > The result.... > > I am far from satisfied. I have no issue with the programs as such. > It was the fonts that were creating the problem. I found that each > program worked only with its own set of fonts. There is no > standardisation and you won't feel like looking twice at a document > created using these fonts.
http://kumar.travisbsd.org/screenshots/ In the above URL, there are screenshots of Wikipedia in Tamil and Hindi. Personally, I don't like their `choice' (?) of Tamil fonts, but it is quite readable. The Hindi font is excellent. I can also saythat the Bengali font is good. Others who can read their languages can chip in... By the way, this is not exactly an answer to your question, as it does not enable general Indian Language computing on GNU/Linux. The screenshots just show that on my Debian system, Konqueror renders Indian languages quite well, when I have the ttf-indic-fonts packages installed. You might be interested in using a localized KDE or GNOME if you are interested in some Indian language computing, though I have no experience with them. Kumar ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
