Dinbandhu wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 07:59 +0530, 74yrs old wrote: >> Whether Telugu and kannada display correctly in the latest version? Is >> there phonetic keyboard layout for Telugu and Kannada - similar to >> Baraha type in Windows? Because Ubuntu 7.04 does not display >> character map correctly and there is no phonetic keyboard for Kannada >> just like baraha type for windows and as such I am not happy. > > As per my experience, the character map for Indian languages works just > fine in Ubuntu 7.04. Did you do the install of baraha for SCIM which we > had set up a few months back? Now, I have only tested the Hindi version. > But I can tell you that the character map for Hindi is perfect-- an > exact mirror image of Baraha Windows. And once Gora and I got the Hindi > version proper, then she applied that map to all the remaining Indian > languages. And at that point, she requested on this very forum that all > interested parties should please test the languages they know and give > feedback. I am not aware that anyone came forward with feedback for > those languages. If there are problems with the Kannada or Telugu > versions, then that was the time you should have brought detailed report > just as I had done with the Hindi. I am guessing that Kannada and Telugu > as well as the rest of the maps should be mostly correct. There are > probably a few small changes that need to be made, because of certain > difference between Devanagari and these languages' alphabets. But it is > not much difference. Why don't you come forward and do the work to check > them? I do not know these languages otherwise I would have done it > myself. But it is not the fault of Ubuntu 7.04. There is no such system > problem at all. And the software is written. It only needs someone to > carefully go through the map and point out the probably 7 or 8 simple > corrections that need to be made. And then the work will be done-- > permanently. For it will apply to all future versions of Ubuntu as well. > In fact, I think SCIM works for all various Linux distributions. So why > don't you come forward and test Kannada and Telugu and let us know > exactly where the problems are--which letters are wrong--so the matter > will be solved. > > Regards, > Swarup > >
There's something called "Ubuntu Restricted Extras" under add/remove programs.. when installed, which i did at the very beginning, installs all the proprietary codecs.. which is really useful.. Maybe they should include that option at the first-time boot itself. Venkatesh Nandakumar -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
