On 3/30/06, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Here is a systematic way of trying things. Could you come on IRC > tonight, or at some pre-arranged time to work on this? > 1. Let us start with a single Malayalam font, and check the rendering > on the system, before worrying about Indic-enabled browsers. If you > are aware of which fonts provide Malayalam on your system, please > remove them temporarily, and start with the Samyak font from > <http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/Samyak_Font/new/Samyak_Malayalam.ttf> > 2. After installing Samyak, show me the output of > fc-list :lang-ml > 3. The best Unicode editor that I have come across is yudit > (http://www.yudit.org/), though it is not very efficient as an > editor. Install this, either by compiling it yourself, or from an > Ubuntu package. yudit uses a configuration file, > ~/.yudit/yudit.properties. There is also a system-wide file, > /usr/share/yudit/config/yudit.properties, that is copied the first > time you start up yudit. So, make the suggested change below to the > system-wide file *before* starting yudit, or to the personal file > of the user you are running as. > Edit yudit.properties, find the line starting with, > "yudit.font.TrueType=...", and append the name of the .ttf font file > for Samyak, e.g., Samyak_Malayalam.ttf. To avoid confusion, I have > attached my yudit.properties file that you can simply copy to the > appropriate location. > Make the font available to yudit. Copy the .ttf file to > /usr/share/yudit/fonts, or make a symbolic link to where you have > installed it in the system. > Start up yudit. If you are using the yudit.properties file that > I have attached, you should now see "TrueType" in the font tab > (third from left), and "Malayalam" in the input tab. Else, do a > shift+F2 for the font tab, and a F3 for the input tab, with the > attached yudit.properties file. Now you should be able to type in > Malayalam with a pseudo-phonetic (ITRANS) layout. If you prefer > Inscript, use F2. > 4. Ideally, one would check rendering with a comprehensive list of > conjuncts in Malayalam, e.g., for an Oriya equivalent, see > http://oriya.sarovar.org/or_conjuncts.html. While it can be time- > consuming, and sometimes a contentious issuse, to come up with such > a list, my personal feeling is that it is essential. Please let me > know if you would be willing to type this up in yudit, which should > render it correctly. It is sufficent to start with a list from a > dictionary, for example. > 5. Armed with such a list, and what is hopefully a reference rendering > from yudit, I, or someone else, could fix any bugs in Pango. If it > is too much of a hassle to compile a complete list, you can type > in snippets that have improper rendering, save the file as utf-8 > (default with yudit), and open it in gedit to investigate > differences in rendering. > 6. You can short-circuit some of this work by looking at how your > browser renders examples at http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/. However, > this uses yet another rendering library, m17n, and the short- > circuiting skips enough steps that I hope you will understand if I > do not have the time to help you out separately with that. >
Thanks Gora, I will try this out immediately after I get back from a conference on Monday. I will log into #ubuntu-in (as carthik) and we could meet sometime there. I will send you an email after I get back to let you know how this goes for me, and when we can meet. Thanks a LOT :) Carthik. > Regards, > Gora > > > > __________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > > > -- Ph.D. Candidate University of Central Florida Homepage: http://carthik.net
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