Fedora 6 gives one of the best support for Indic (Indian - South Asian) languages. It compiles its default Web Client, and Mail client with Pango Support to enable the complex rendering of the Indic fonts. The Default Firefox and Thnderbird thus harness the true power.
Enabling Hindi Support
Login as a root user, and then use the following command.
yum groupinstall <language>-support
In case of Hindi, I've used, yum groupinstall hindi-support
This will install basically three things.
- Hindi fonts
- SCIM, Simple Common Input Method
- Open Office Hindi Language Pack
Once done, Just run scim-setup from the console, to setup the SCIM for the first time, and then Log-off and log-in again.
Configuring Hindi typing
One of the major hurdles in using Indic languages is to type them. But SCIM's magic works like a charm. On logging back again, you'll find a small box in your System tray, Just right click on it to select the type of input format you want. Here is the list that it specifies
- English/European
- Hindi - inscript
- Hindi - itrans
- Hindi - phonetic
- Hindi - remington
- Hindi - typewriter
- English/Keyboard
I prefer Hindi - phonetic, which basically maps the keyboard for its syllables and consonants. For eg.
हिंदी = hiMdI
The user can always switch between the input methods, by clicking the system tray icon, and selecting the input method as English/keyboard.
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Thank You
Thank you for the information.. I was suffering from rendering problem in indic fonts for a long time now it works.
SCIM = Baraha
Most windows users, who've used Baraha client http://www.baraha.com/ shall experience a very easy learning curve while using SCIM.
How to make hindi as default typing on all applications
Dear ruturaj,
I went through your post regarding configuring hindi typing using SCIM. It was helpful, but i would like to know how make hindi typing as default one as any application gets opened for example gedit or openoffice, except the console.
Can this be possible or not. If not means every time one log on the machine has to choose the SCIM Hindi-indicscript.
Thanks & regards
thank u for this but can u
thank u for this but can u tell me if it will work on f8