Revision as of 04:38, 21 April 2009

Indic

Introduction

This page provides Language support matrix for Indic scripts for various components.

How to Install/Remove any Language support

To install any language support in your Fedora Desktop you need to use following command

yum groupinstall <language_name>-support

e.g. to install Hindi language support use

yum groupinstall hindi-support.

To remove any language support in your Fedora Desktop you need to use following command

yum groupremove <language_name>-support

e.g. to install Hindi language support use

yum groupremove hindi-support.

Fonts list

Languages that are supported in glibc are shown in green colour
Languages that are not supported in glibc are shown in red colour

Language	Default Font package	Other available Fonts
Assamese	lohit-assamese-fonts
Bengali	lohit-bengali-fonts
Chhattisgarhi
Gujarati	lohit-gujarati-fonts	samyak-gujarati-fonts
Hindi	lohit-hindi-fonts	sarai-fonts, samyak-devanagari-fonts
Kannada	lohit-kannada-fonts
Kashmiri	lohit-kashmiri-fonts
Konkani
Maithili	lohit-maithili-fonts
Malayalam	smc-meera-fonts	lohit-malayalam-fonts, smc-anjalioldlipi-fonts, smc-dyuthi-fonts, smc-kalyani-fonts, smc-rachana-fonts, smc-raghumalayalam-fonts, smc-suruma-fonts, samyak-malayalam-fonts
Marathi	lohit-marathi-fonts
Nepali	madan-fonts	lohit-nepali-fonts
Oriya	lohit-oriya-fonts	samyak-oriya-fonts
Punjabi	lohit-punjabi-fonts
Sanskrit
Sindhi	lohit-sindhi-fonts
Tamil	lohit-tamil-fonts	samyak-tamil-fonts
Telugu	lohit-telugu-fonts

Required packages for using Input method

To use any Indic keyboard layout required packages to be installed are ibus, ibus-m17n, m17n-lib, m17n-db and m17n-contrib (alternatively scim and scim-m17n as well as uim and uim-m17n can be used instead of ibus). Keyboard layouts are stored in *.mim files which are installed from m17n-db and m17n-contrib packages.

To know more about iBus check the IBus page .

To know more about scim check the SCIM page .

Keyboard Layouts

Default Keymap
If Inscript keymap is available for any language then that is used as default keymap.

Language	Inscript	Itrans	Phonetic	Typewriter	Others
Assamese	yes	yes	yes	N/A	N/A
Bengali	yes	yes	N/A	N/A	Probhat
Chhattisgarhi	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Gujarati	yes	yes	yes	N/A	N/A
Hindi	yes	yes	yes	yes	remington
Kannada	yes	yes	N/A	N/A	Kgp
Kashmiri	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Konkani	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Maithili	yes	N/A	N/A	N/A
Malayalam	yes	yes	N/A	N/A	Mozhi, Swanalekha
Marathi	yes	yes	yes	N/A	N/A
Oriya	yes	yes	yes	N/A	N/A
Punjabi	yes	yes	yes	N/A	Jhelum
Sanskrit	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	harvard-kyoto
Sindhi	yes	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tamil	yes	yes	yes	yes	Tamil99, lk-renganathan
Telugu	yes	yes	N/A	N/A	Apple, Pothana, Rts
Nepali	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Rom, Trad
Sinhala	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Wijesekera, Samanala, phonetic-dynamic, phonetic-static, trans

Dictionaries

Fedora 9 onwards we have hunspell packages as part of spell checker dictionary support for all major applications and default GNOME/KDE spell checking. But still some packages are using aspell dictionaries.The preference order for various dictionaries is defined currently in /usr/share/enchant/enchant.ordering file.

Fedora 11 onwards we have hyphen packages as part of hyphenation dictionary support for OpenOffice.org applications.

Language	hunspell	hyphen
Assamese	N/A	N/A
Bengali	hunspell-bn	hyphen-sa
Chhattisgarhi	N/A	N/A
Gujarati	hunspell-gu	hyphen-gu
Hindi	hunspell-hi	hyphen-hi
Kannada	N/A	hyphen-kn
Kashmiri	N/A	N/A
Konkani	N/A	N/A
Maithili	N/A	N/A
Malayalam	hunspell-ml	hyphen-ml
Marathi	hunspell-mr	N/A
Nepali	hunspell-ne	N/A
Oriya	hunspell-or	hyphen-or
Punjabi	hunspell-pa	hyphen-pa
Sanskrit	N/A	hyphen-sa
Sindhi	N/A	N/A
Tamil	hunspell-ta	hyphen-ta
Telugu	hunspell-te	hyphen-te

@@ Line 93: / Line 93: @@
 | '''Language''' || '''Inscript''' || '''Itrans''' || '''Phonetic''' || '''Typewriter''' || '''Others'''
 |-
-| [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/AssameseKeyboardLayouts Assamese] || yes || yes || yes || no || no
+| [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/AssameseKeyboardLayouts Assamese] || yes || yes || yes || N/A || N/A
 |-
-| [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/BengaliKeyboardLayouts Bengali] || yes || yes || no || no || Probhat
+| [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/BengaliKeyboardLayouts Bengali] || yes || yes || N/A || N/A || Probhat
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/ChhattisgarhiKeyboardLayouts Chhattisgarhi]
-|| no || no || no || no
+|| N/A || N/A || N/A || N/A
 |-
-| [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/GujaratiKeyboardLayouts Gujarati] || yes || yes || yes || no || no
+| [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/GujaratiKeyboardLayouts Gujarati] || yes || yes || yes || N/A || N/A
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/HindiKeyboardLayouts Hindi]
@@ Line 106: / Line 106: @@
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/KannadaKeyboardLayouts Kannada]
-|| yes || yes || no || no || Kgp
+|| yes || yes || N/A || N/A || Kgp
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/KashmiriKeyboardLayouts Kashmiri]
-|| no || no || no || no
+|| N/A || N/A || N/A || N/A
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/KonkaniKeyboardLayouts Konkani]
-|| no || no || no || no
+|| N/A || N/A || N/A || N/A
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/MaithiliKeyboardLayouts Maithili]
-|| yes || no || no || no
+|| yes || N/A || N/A || N/A
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/MalayalamKeyboardLayouts Malayalam]
-|| yes || yes || no || no || Mozhi, Swanalekha
+|| yes || yes || N/A || N/A || Mozhi, Swanalekha
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/MarathiKeyboardLayouts Marathi]
-|| yes || yes || yes || no || no
+|| yes || yes || yes || N/A || N/A
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/OriyaKeyboardLayouts Oriya]
-|| yes || yes || yes || no || no
+|| yes || yes || yes || N/A || N/A
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/PunjabiKeyboardLayouts Punjabi]
-|| yes || yes || yes || no || Jhelum
+|| yes || yes || yes || N/A || Jhelum
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/SanskritKeyboardLayouts Sanskrit]
-|| no || no || no || no || harvard-kyoto
+|| N/A || N/A || N/A || N/A || harvard-kyoto
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/SindhiKeyboardLayouts Sindhi]
-|| yes || no || no || no || no
+|| yes || N/A || N/A || N/A || N/A
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/TamilKeyboardLayouts Tamil]
@@ Line 139: / Line 139: @@
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/TeluguKeyboardLayouts Telugu]
-|| yes || yes || no || no || Apple, Pothana, Rts
+|| yes || yes || N/A || N/A || Apple, Pothana, Rts
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/NepaliKeyboardLayouts Nepali]
-|| no || no || no || no || Rom, Trad
+|| N/A || N/A || N/A || N/A || Rom, Trad
 |-
 | [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Indic/SinhalaKeyboardLayouts Sinhala]
-|| no || no || no || no || Wijesekera, Samanala, phonetic-dynamic, phonetic-static, trans
+|| N/A || N/A || N/A || N/A || Wijesekera, Samanala, phonetic-dynamic, phonetic-static, trans
 |}

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