On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- On Tue, 17/6/08, Easwar Hariharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Easwar Hariharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Help Needed for Hindi Typiing in Ubuntu > To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, 17 June, 2008, 9:42 PM > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I have installed GNU/Linux Ubuntu on the PC of one of the senior science > > writers. He was using Windows earlier. Now he is facing some problems > using > > a feature of Windows Character Map, wherein he could assign a key to type > > particular alphabet in Shusha Font. > > > > He uses OpenOffice to type his article in Hindi. > > > > If I failed to help him out he might go back to Windows which I don't > want > > and which will discourage others to take Linux. Could someone please > help? > > System>>Administration>>Language Support.Enable Hindi.The phonetic > type of > input should allow him to learn how to type in Hindi easily. > -- > Regards, > Easwar > > > Thanks Eshwar, but he says that in Windows he could use Alt+ number keys to > generate some character, could that be done in Ubuntu? > Well all this font stuff is not much needed in Ubuntu (or any Linux desktop).. Hindi input needs to be enabled if it was not already setup or installed. these could tell better. http://113street.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/hindi-in-ubuntu-linux/ there is another quicker way (albeit will need some learning to get used to keyboard). http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/KeyboardGnomeKde or best is this.. (just select India - Hindi Bolnagri in keyboard layout - see above link ). http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/BolNagri What ever is typed will be saved in Unicode and not in font encoding like Shusha.. benefits of which will be immediately evident. Regards, Karunakar -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
