(Sorry for breaking the thread, but I accidentally deleted the message that I wanted to reply to.)
"Shakthi Kannan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] On 5/6/06, gora at sarai.net <gora at sarai.net> wrote: >> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/tamil/input-error.jpg >> >> However, what is probably happening >> is that gedit is still using Sans, or some other font with only partial >> coverage of Tamil. Changing System->Preferences->Font changes it only >> for the user interface. If you want to do this only for gedit, change >> the gedit font under the "Font & Colors" tab in the Edit > Preferences >> menu. > >No, changing only for an application doesn't resolve it. There is a >bigger picture to it. Many folks have reported bugs of not being able >to use their native language input form when they login to gdm with >their local language. It somehow works when they login with some other >language interface. I am missing something here. The picture in question shows a gedit window. What does this have to do with gdm? The suggested solutions will work for gedit, with the editing of /etc/fonts/fonts.conf working for all applications that use fontconfig, which covers all GNOME applications. Now, what do you need to happen with gdm? Do you want the login screen (username/password prompts, etc.) to appear in Malayalam? Do you want to be able to log in with username and password in Malayalam? Both of these are possible, but I will have to try things out on a Ubuntu box to remember how to do this. Regards, Gora -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
