Re: [Indlinux-group] how to type devanagari?

[Guntupalli Karunakar <karunakar freedomink org>]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:53:00 +0530
Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu pobox com> wrote:

> This worked!
> 
>
> > 
> > i'm running Debian GNU/Linux.  i have XFree86 4.1.0 and cvs gtk+ 1.3.11
> > compiled.
> > 
> > How do i type Hindi into GtkTextView?
> > 
> > i got the inscript xkb files from indlinux.org but i don't know how to
> > use them.  Do i need to install any special fonts?  What is the magic
> > key combination (xev helps?)?
> 
>  To use xkb files, do the following
>  copy the xkb files to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/
> 
>   # cp inscript.hi.xkb  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/hi
>  (do same for other languages also)
> 
>  to load keymap 
>   $ setxkbmap -layout hi -option grp:ctrl_shift_toggle
> 
>  use CTRL+SHIFT  toggle
>   
>   $ setxkbmap -layout hi -option grp:caps
>  lets you toggle with CAPS lock (but caps lock definition changes for current X session, donno yet how to get it back).
> 

A small update on this 

 XFree86 CVS tree now has symbol files for following
  ben - bengali
  dev - devanagari
  guj - gujarati
  gur - gurmukhi (punjabi)
  tml - tamil
 They are same Inscript ones.
 So in future releases we wont need to seprately install them. 

Regards,
Karunakar