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Re: Additional Font Support necessary for Indian language "Malayalam"



On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 07:24 +0530, Anand wrote:
> On 31-Oct-07, at 3:33 AM, arise peter mukkathu wrote:
> 
> > Hai all............
> >
> > Its a prod to be part of the   Translation for Linux Softwares.......
> > Unlike the English and other languages The Indian Language "Malayalam"
> > have have a large number of letters (>53 !!!!!). Its very difficult to
> > type malayalam as there is no virtual keyboard having all the letters
> > included. There is something called "KOOTTAKSHARAM" (nothing but
> > combining two or more letters!) is very important, and with out that
> > its very difficult to read and understand Malayalam.
> >
> > Currently our site doesn't support many popular fonts like Karthika
> > which is commonly used, and the  font supported currently is not
> > alowwing the " KOOTTAKSHARAM".
> >
> > I have attached some forts which r avaialble in my system i dont know
> > it wil b usefull or not!
> > but if possible pls include this fonts too.....
> 
> I think Launch Pad uses unicode (correct me if I am wrong) and if you  
> have any unicode font installed on your machine then it should work  
> fine.
> Typing Malayalam is a problem with using correct keyboard layout and  
> not with Launch Pad.
> 
> I am able to type and view Telugu, another indian language, without  
> any problem using firefox extension Indic Input[1].
> There is one more similar extension Indic IME[2].
> 
> [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3972
> [2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2573
> 

Wikipedia has this advice for enabling Indic languages in your browser.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts

I don't know if this helps.

Caroline





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