[ubuntu-in] Typing and more importantly reading in Malayalam

[Baishampayan Ghose]

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Carthik,
>> I tried the same on Firefox 1.0.7 at home, on breezy, with firefox 
>> from the Ubuntu repository, and am yet to find uniformity or 
>> consistency in the Rosetta translations that exist.
Hmm ...

>> It seems to depend on the font (usually some ttf font) that was 
>> used by the translator. In some fonts, the vowel-qualifiers are 
>> always post-placed(wrt to the consonant they qualify) and in some 
>> fonts, there is a character for short-r, which when I see it in 
>> Firefox/Epiphany shows up as a "Registered" sign (the R with a 
>> circle around it).
It can't depend on the font used by the translator as the translator has
provided the input in Unicode and thus any Unicode compliant font should
be able to display that text. Do you have the ttf-indic-fonts package
installed? That should solve the fonts issues. Else, it's possible that
there is something broken in the ttf-freefonts package. Soumyadip, can
you enlighten us on this?

>> Having spent a few good hours with defoma, a few apps, settings, 
>> fonts, and such, I still don't know what looks and is right, and 
>> what is not, so for now, I will lay off translating into malayalam.
>>  A page to explain how to setup Ubuntu with Malayalam "the right 
>> way" would be great.
Heh, there was no need to tweak defoma et al, those things are set up
perfectly and they rarely need any modification from the user. It's just
that your browser has some issues. Just be patient, these issues are
very trivial in nature.
Regards,
BG

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