Additional Font Support necessary for Indian language "Malayalam"

[Anand]

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

-Anand