On Monday 25 June 2007 17:14, शंतनु (Shantanoo) wrote: > > Could anyone give me a hint? I want to type using > > Unicode characters, because the older ones are > > incompatible, and mess up everything.
OK. Whatever follows has base on KDE3.5 and slackware. It has been long since I have to modify much of X settings so I don't remember the "old" way neither I need to, I guess. You need three things - keyboard map In KDE control center, go to Regional and accessibility -> Keyboard layouts. Select multiple keyboard layouts and add devngari keyboard layout. In switching options, select application as switching policy so that you can work on roman and devnagari keyboards in different applications simultaneously. Also in Regional and accessibility -> Keyboard shortcuts, assign a simple shortcut for switching keyboards on the fly. I use Win+Escape. - Fonts I use slackware 11 and slackware current and the distribution has the devnagari fonts as a part of default install. Some of the prominent ones are lohit,padma,utkal,gargi,Kedage,kalimati etc. Gargi is one I have used with good results. You can obtain these fonts from net and install using KDE control centre. Sudhanwa has released a devnagari unicode font also. http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com/ - Keyboard layout Marathi keyboard layout (and lot more) can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari. HTH Shridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
