[ubuntu-in] Using hindi as the user interface language in ubuntu 10.04

[Easwar Hariharan]

> Easier would be System>>Administration>>Language Support>>Install/Remove
> languages. Install Hindi with translations, extra fonts and input methods.
> Then move Hindi to the top of the list in the
> System>>Administration>>Language Support>>Language for menus and windows
> (drag and drop) in your mother's account. Once she logs out and logs back
> in, Hindi should be the first preference with English as the fallback.
>

Just verified it. Reasonably useful. If she wants to type in Hindi, you'll
need to get IBus as her input method which would necessitate the IBus daemon
being started on login. If she is used to Hindi typing, I would recommend
the Remington (or so, I don't remember exactly), otherwise the phonetic
method should do just fine, once you get used to characters mapped to some
unintuitive keys because of the large variety of symbols in Devanagri as
opposed to English.

Regards,
Easwar
Registered Linux user #442065
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