Hi,
I am working in the Telugu localization group. I have tested the Ubuntu
Dapper Drake (Flight 5) for Telugu support. The following are my
observations.
Installation Instructions in Telugu:
Telugu installation is not supported in Dapper Drake as of now. To
enable telugu installaion the l10n-debian installer needs to be localized.
Comment: l10n-debian-installer localization has to be done.
Telugu in langauges menu during login:
During Login user is not given an option to select Telugu as the default
desktop language. By default telugu is not included in the list of
languages in the languages menu during login. To include telugu to this
list, telugu language support has to be added. To add telugu support to
the gnome desktop, go to System > administration > Language Support and
add telugu support to the existing gnome. Now you can select Telugu from
the languages menu in login screen and then you can see the gnome
desktop in Telugu.
Comment: Depending on the Country chosen during installation, the
relevant language support can be installed or during installation the
user has to be given an option to enable his choice of languages whose
support has to be added.
SCIM or IIIMF:
Telugu input in Dapper Drake can be made with SCIM. SCIM with inscript
keyboard layout is provided for telugu input in Dapper Drake. Including
RTS keyboard layout would have helped the user more.
Comment:
1. RTS layout has to be included into the m17n-lib of the SCIM.
2. SCIM input module is not enabled in the desktop by default. User has
to change the input method to enable Telugu input. All gnome
applications provide with a mechanism to do this. But non gnome
applications like ooffice, firefox etc doesn't provide any mechanism to
do that. User has to explicitly to start SCIM module through command
prompt. So, SCIM module has to be enabled by default.
Procedure to enable telugu input in "gedit":
Even when the user logs in selecting Telugu as his language, default
input language still remains to be English. User has to manually enable
Telugu input in gedit. To enable telugu input in "gedit" SCIM input
method has to be enabled. To enable, right click and select Input method
and SCIM Input Method. And then the input language can be changed using
"ctrl + space". To change this shortcut, go to System > Preferences >
SCIM Input Method Setup
Comment: Only Inscript layout is provided. RTS layout would be of more
help to the end user.
Test gedit rendering:
"gedit" telugu rendering is pretty good. :)
Desktop in Telugu:
Desktop in Telugu is good.
Comment: Localization of telugu desktop is not complete. A few elements
are yet to be done.
Firefox Telugu rendering:
Initially Firefox didn't render Telugu text properly. Then I installed
the Telugu language pack from language support. Then Firefox rendered
with pango but still was using FreeFont and the rendering was not
proper. Then I set priority to the Pothana2000 font over FreeFont in
/etc/fonts/local.conf which solved the problem. After doing this Firefox
rendering was pretty good :)
glibc locale:
glibc locale is upto date.
ooffice font rendering and input:
A few rendering issues are found in ooffice. But this is not ubuntu
specific problem.
Comment: Has to look into these rendering issues.
Regards,
Naresh
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