I18N/Indic

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 remove Hindi language support use

yum groupremove hindi-support.

Language	Locale code	Default Font package	Input method	fontconfig	anaconda	comps
Assamese	as_IN	lohit-assamese-fonts	as-phonetic.mim	yes	yes	yes
Bengali	bn_IN	lohit-bengali-fonts	bn-inscript.mim	yes	yes	yes
Bodo	brx_IN	lohit-devanagari-fonts	brx-inscript2-deva.mim	yes	no	no
Dogri	no	lohit-devanagari-fonts	doi-inscript2-deva.mim	yes	no	no
Gujrati	gu_IN	lohit-gujarati-fonts	gu-inscript.mim	yes	yes	yes
Hindi	hi_IN	lohit-devanagari-fonts	hi-inscript.mim	yes	yes	yes
Kannada	kn_IN	lohit-kannada-fonts	kn-kgp.mim	yes	yes	yes
Kashmiri	ks_IN	lohit-assamese-fonts	ks-kbd.mim	yes	yes	yes
Konkani	kok_IN	lohit-devanagari-fonts	kok-inscript2-deva.mim	yes	no	yes
Maithili	mai_IN	lohit-devanagari-fonts	mai-inscript.mim	yes	yes	yes
Malayalam	ml_IN	smc-meera-fonts	ml-inscript.mim	yes	yes	yes
Manipuri	no	lohit-bengali-fonts	mni-inscript2-beng.mim	yes	no	no
Marathi	mr_IN	lohit-devanagari-fonts	mr-inscript.mim	yes	yes	yes
Nepali	ne_NP	madan-fonts	ne-rom.mim	yes	no	yes
Oriya	or_IN	lohit-oriya-fonts	or-inscript.mim	yes	yes	yes
Punjabi	pa_IN	lohit-punjabi-fonts	pa-inscript.mim	yes	yes	yes
Sanskrit	sa_IN	lohit-devanagari-fonts	sa-harvard-kyoto.mim	yes	no	yes
Santhali	no	lohit-devanagari-fonts	sat-inscript2-deva.mim	yes	no	no
Sindhi	sd_IN	lohit-devanagari-fonts	sd-inscript.mim	yes	yes	yes
Tamil	ta_IN	lohit-tamil-fonts	ta-typewriter.mim	yes	yes	yes
Telugu	te_IN	lohit-telugu-fonts	te-inscript.mim	yes	yes	yes
Urdu	ur_IN	paktype-naqsh-fonts	ur-phonetic.mim	yes	no	yes

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	Locale code	Default Font package	Other available Fonts
Assamese	as_IN	lohit-assamese-fonts
Bengali	bn_IN	lohit-bengali-fonts
Bodo	brx_IN	lohit-devanagari-fonts
Dogri	doi_IN	lohit-devanagari-fonts
Gujarati	gu_IN	lohit-gujarati-fonts	samyak-gujarati-fonts
Hindi	hi_IN	lohit-devanagari-fonts	sarai-fonts, samyak-devanagari-fonts
Kannada	kn_IN	lohit-kannada-fonts
Kashmiri	ks_IN@devanagari	lohit-devanagari-fonts
Konkani	kok_IN	lohit-devanagari-fonts
Maithili	mai_IN	lohit-devanagari-fonts
Malayalam	ml_IN	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
Manipuri	mni_IN, mni_IN@bengali	lohit-bengali-fonts,tabish-eeyek-fonts
Marathi	mr_IN	lohit-devanagari-fonts
Nepali	ne_NP	madan-fonts	lohit-devanagari-fonts
Oriya	or_IN	lohit-oriya-fonts	samyak-oriya-fonts
Punjabi	pa_IN	lohit-punjabi-fonts	saab-fonts
Sanskrit	sa_IN
Santhali	sat_IN@devanagari, sat_IN
Sindhi	sd_IN@devanagari	lohit-devanagari-fonts
Tamil	ta_IN	lohit-tamil-fonts	samyak-tamil-fonts, serafettin-cartoon-fonts
Telugu	te_IN	lohit-telugu-fonts	pothana2000-fonts, vemana2000-fonts
Urdu	ur_IN		paktype-naskh-basic-farsi-fonts, paktype-naqsh-fonts, paktype-ajrak-fonts, paktype-tehreer-fonts, paktype-naskh-basic-fonts, paktype-naskh-basic-sa-fonts, paktype-naskh-basic-urdu-fonts, paktype-naskh-basic-sindhi-fonts, nafees-naskh-fonts, nafees-nastaleeq-fonts, nafees-pakistani-naskh-fonts, nafees-riqa-fonts, nafees-tehreer-naskh-fonts, nafees-web-naskh-fonts, google-droid-sans-fonts, sil-lateef-fonts,sil-scheherazade-fonts

Required packages for using Input method

Iok-Indic Onscreen Virtual Keyboard
If Inscript keymap is available for any Indic language then iok application can be used to input characters for that language.

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

Language	Default	Inscript	Itrans	Phonetic	Others
Assamese	Phonetic	yes	yes	yes	-
Bengali	Inscript	yes	yes	-	Probhat
Bodo	-	-	-	-	-
Dogri	-	-	-	-	-
Gujarati	Inscript	yes	yes	yes	-
Hindi	Inscript	yes	yes	yes	Remington, Typewriter, Vedmata
Kannada	Kgp	yes	yes	-	-
Kashmiri	kbd	yes	-	-	-
Konkani	-	-	-	-	-
Maithili	Inscript	yes	-	-	-
Malayalam	Inscript	yes	yes	-	Mozhi, Swanalekha
Manipuri	-	-	-	-	-
Marathi	Inscript	yes	yes	-	-
Nepali	Rom	-	-	-	Trad
Oriya	Inscript	yes	yes	yes	-
Punjabi	Inscript	yes	yes	yes	Jhelum
Sanskrit	harvard-kyoto	-	-	-	-
Sindhi	Inscript	yes	-	-	-
Tamil	Tamil99	yes	yes	yes	lk-renganathan, Vutum, Typewriter
Telugu	Inscript	yes	-	-	Apple, Pothana, Rts
Urdu	-	-	-	yes	-

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	hunspell-as	hyphen-as
Bengali	hunspell-bn	hyphen-bn
Bodo	N/A	N/A
Dogri	N/A	N/A
Gujarati	hunspell-gu	hyphen-gu
Hindi	hunspell-hi	hyphen-hi
Kannada	hunspell-kn	hyphen-kn
Kashmiri	N/A	N/A
Konkani	N/A	N/A
Maithili	hunspell-mai	N/A
Malayalam	hunspell-ml	hyphen-ml
Manipuri	N/A	N/A
Marathi	hunspell-mr	hyphen-mr
Nepali	hunspell-ne	N/A
Oriya	hunspell-or	hyphen-or
Punjabi	hunspell-pa	hyphen-pa
Sanskrit	N/A	hyphen-sa
Santhali	N/A	N/A
Sindhi	N/A	N/A
Tamil	hunspell-ta	hyphen-ta
Telugu	hunspell-te	hyphen-te
Urdu	N/A	N/A