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 | 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 |
Required packages for using Input method
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 |
| Chhattisgarhi | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gujarati | Inscript | yes | yes | yes | - |
| Hindi | Inscript | yes | yes | yes | Remington, Typewriter |
| Kannada | Kgp | yes | yes | - | - |
| Kashmiri | kbd | - | - | - | - |
| Konkani | - | - | - | - | - |
| Maithili | Inscript | yes | - | - | - |
| Malayalam | Inscript | yes | yes | - | Mozhi, Swanalekha |
| Marathi | Inscript | yes | yes | - | - |
| Nepali | Rom | - | - | - | Trad |
| Oriya | Inscript | yes | yes | yes | - |
| Punjabi | Inscript | yes | yes | yes | Jhelum |
| Sanskrit | harvard-kyoto | - | - | - | - |
| Sindhi | Inscript | yes | - | - | - |
| Sinhala | Wijesekera | - | - | - | Samanala, phonetic-dynamic, phonetic-static, trans |
| Tamil | Tamil99 | yes | yes | yes | lk-renganathan, Vutum, Typewriter |
| Telugu | Inscript | yes | - | - | 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 | hyphen-as |
| 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 | hunspell-mai | 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 | hunspell-si | N/A |
| Tamil | hunspell-ta | hyphen-ta |
| Telugu | hunspell-te | hyphen-te |