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.
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 | saab-fonts |
Sanskrit | ||
Sindhi | lohit-sindhi-fonts | |
Sinhala | lklug-fonts | |
Tamil | lohit-tamil-fonts | samyak-tamil-fonts |
Telugu | lohit-telugu-fonts | pothana2000-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
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 |
Nepali | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Rom, Trad |
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 |
Sinhala | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Wijesekera, Samanala, phonetic-dynamic, phonetic-static, trans |
Tamil | yes | yes | yes | yes | Tamil99, lk-renganathan |
Telugu | yes | yes | N/A | N/A | Apple, Pothana, Rts |
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 | N/A |
Bengali | hunspell-bn | hyphen-bn |
Chhattisgarhi | 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 | N/A | N/A |
Malayalam | hunspell-ml | hyphen-ml |
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 |
Sindhi | N/A | N/A |
Sinhala | N/A | N/A |
Tamil | hunspell-ta | hyphen-ta |
Telugu | hunspell-te | hyphen-te |