Re: newbie+ assamese translation

[Amitakhya Phukan <amitakhya phukan gmail com>]

Dewan Hrishikesh wrote:
> thanks simos, i got some good idea of going about. why don't you
> document it out for some newbie to get a first hand information to start.
>
> hriday
>
>
>
>
> On 5/6/07, * Simos Xenitellis* <simos lists googlemail com
> <mailto:simos lists googlemail com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 13:05 +0530, Hriday Phukan wrote:
>     > this doesnot work as because they have not yet supported assamese.
>     > however there is hack in that we can work out the keymap by
>     including
>     > extra characters as required.
>     >
>     > there is one more problem that i am facing is that i am unable
>     to read
>     > the keyboard applet. my ubuntu and debian etch gnome keyboard applet
>     > is not displaying the characters in the correct format
>
>     What do you mean by not "in the correct format". Is that a rendering
>     issue or an encoding issue?
>
>     > and second question will true type font help in doing this ? i have
>     > located a true type font that could be used ?
>
>     You can easily install a Truetype font (Unicode) by simply dropping it
>     in ~/.fonts/. Or /usr/share/fonts/ for system-wide.
>
>     The system however does not guarantee that it will use that font to
>     display Assamese. Specifically, Assamese uses the Bengali script with
>     the addition of two glyphs (???) (Wikipedia). So, most probably a
>     Bengali font will override the Assamese you add.
>
>     So, what you do is simply select your own font at
>     System/Preferences/Font and will override all others. To verify
>     your own
>     font is used, click Applications/Accessories/Character Map. Then, pick
>     the Bengali section. For each glyph simply right-click on them and it
>     will show you which exactly font the glyph came from.
>
>
>
>     The IndLinux.org website that Ihar mentioned, points to
>     http://luit.sourceforge.net for information on the Assamese language.
>     I have the impression it is not very active; it would to be good
>     to find
>     a contact there.
>
>     At the Luit website, at the front page, there is a news item for the
>     'XKB keymap'. If you install the 'XKB keymap', you will be able to see
>     Assamese in the Keyboard applet of GNOME. If this keymap solves all
>     problems with Assamese writing, the luit team can send it
>     "upstream" to
>     the keyboard project (xkeyboard-config) and then all newer
>     distributions
>     will be able to write in Assamese simply by choosing the language.
>
>     The installation instructions for the keyboard map that are
>     included are
>     not good ones; they do not help to integrate with GNOME Keyboard
>     Settings.
>
>     1. You need to place the Assamese (as) file in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/
>     2. Add in the keyboard database the Assamese layout,
>     /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.xml
>     3. Set the new layout at the Keyboard Applet. Set two layouts in total
>     (English, Assamese) as there might be some issues with three layouts.
>     Set the keyboard combination to switch between layouts; the default is
>     AltAlt which may not be good. Alt-Shift could be better.
>
>     Simos
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     gnome-i18n mailing list
>     gnome-i18n gnome org <mailto:gnome-i18n gnome org>
>     http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
>
>
>
>
>
hi all !
sorry for the late reply. thanks hriday for your interest in the GNOME
assamese translation project. the fonts and the xkb keymap from luit.org
have not been maintained for sometime. hence, i am not sure if they are
completely up-to-date. i would need some more information from you
regarding assamese support on your computer.i shall mail you
accordingly. thanks everyone for helping hriday till now. :-)


thanks and regards,
amitakhya phukan.

available on irc.freenode.org on #indlinux and #assamese as amitphukan.

begin:vcard
fn:Amitakhya Phukan
n:Phukan;Amitakhya
adr:;;;;;;India
title:Fedora Ambassador
url:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AmitakhyaPhukan
version:2.1
end:vcard