As far as I know, one cannot encode ascii text in any Unix-like
environments, including GNU/Linux systems. But there is a method to display
ml-tt karthika font (which uses UTF-8 / ISO-8859-1 code base) inside your
G/L distro.

Here is the steps

*Prerequisites*

   1. Payyans must be installed
[Link<http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/smc/payyans/>
   ]
   2. iconv [Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another]
   [This will be already installed in your system]

*Steps*
> Type the text in unicode [In any method such as Manglish or Inscript]
> Convert the text from Unicode to ascii with payyans with the following
command
Command format: payyans -i unicodefile.txt -m fontmap.map -o asciifile.txt
-d u2a
Path extplained : payyans -i /[path]/[folder]/filename.txt -m
/usr/share/payyans/maps/karthika.map -o /[path]/[folder]/asciifile.txt -d
u2a
> iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t  UTF-8 /[path]/[folder]/asciifile.txt >
/home/tom/Desktop/asciifileFinal.txt

Note: Some letters in ml-kathika such as "nda (ണ്ട)"  as in വെണ്ടയ്ക്ക /
ചെണ്ട may not be displayed.



On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, sooraj kenoth <[email protected]>wrote:

> > I want to write in ml-tt karthika font in UBUNTU... but I can't.. Is
> there
> > any technique.. Plz help
>
> If you are using gedit, and if you know the keyboard layout, just
> select the font from preference and start writing.
>
>
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> Sooraj Kenoth
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