[Ilugc] Help me setting malayalam/tamil/hindi keyboard/map
- From: parth.technofreak@xxxxxxxxx (Parthan)
- Date: Sat Aug 19 20:56:33 2006
Prakash Jose Kokkatt wrote:
Hello,
How can i set a keyboard in my local lang...btw i use Debian Etch
GNU/Linux.I need this to write/edit articles in ml.wikipedia.org such a way
that if i type malyalam in "English" it will show corresponding
Malayalam/Tamil.I understand that it needs to setup keymaps for those
LANGs.please help me ppl
regards,
Prakash Jose Kokkattu
Hi,
Changing the keyboard layout and language settings will only enable a
malayalam in keyboard to you. If you need to get malayalam when you type
in english, i.e. phonetic keyboard then you have to install 'scim'
Use apt-get to download and install 'scim'. In additional u need
additional packages to support scim. Important ones are: scim-uim,
scim-m17n, scim-gtk2-immodule, scim-modules-socket, scim-modules-table
and scim-tables-additional. The first 3 are very important.
Once you have these things installed, you should be able to get 'SCIM
input method setup' in your preferences menu.
You have a couple of things more to do, before you can comfortably start
typing in malayalam. I have written a procedure for making scim work for
tamil. The same holds true for malayalam also. scim-tables-additional
provides language tables for all indian languages. Here is my blog for
you to refer,
http://technofreakatchennai.wordpress.com/2006/07/16/the-birth-of-foss4mylang/
HTH :)
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With Regards
Parthan ('technofreak')
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