On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:47:14 -0700 Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> > > The fact that I can type on a keyboard does not mean that the result > > will be displayed correctly. I need help to find out whether > applications running on Mandrake can give acceptable results in the > Asian scripts with complex rendering requirements. > Indic rendering in Qt is not yet ready, so doesnt work with KDE too. > The xkb options in the KDE keyboard control module are undocumented. > > Do any of them relate to setting a compose key? > > These changes in Mandrake are not necessarily in other Linux > distributions. > > We still need to finish Pango or Graphite for rendering, get fonts > with the correct conjuncts for the Indic scripts, and add the > missing keyboards. I believe the immediate ToDo list now is Oriya, > Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Lao, Sinhala, Khmer, Tibetan, Mongolian, > Ethiopic, Cherokee, and Thaana. I want a Yiddish keyboard, too, and > I'm working on an APL font and keyboard. An IPA keyboard would be > very helpful. I'm willing to leave Deseret, Shavian, and so on to > another day, but I wouldn't complain if anybody else felt impelled > to do that work right away. > For Indic keyboards Inscript layout is the standard . This layout is similar for all scripts. See layouts at http://www.indlinux.org/keymap/keymaps.php http://www.indlinux.org/keymap/ All XKB & xmodmap keymaps http://www.indlinux.org/keymap/inscript.tar.gz You can use these. > Pablo wrote previously: > >I have such descriptions for Malayalam (taken from the XFree86 ml), > >Lao and Mongolian (in cyrillic); I included in upcoming MDK 9.0 the > >keyboards mal, lao, mng. > > Excellent. What will the Mongolian/Mongolian keyboard be called? > > >Probably Oriya, Kannada and Telugu follow the same general layout > >of indian keyboards, but I'm not sure. > Inscript layout is same for all indic scripts. Regards, Karunakar -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
