Re: Wikimedia Sponsorships for Indian Language Content in Wikipedia

Thanks a lot ......so the oddity has nothing to do with my installation errs!,
and  i will be eager to be hearing from you when the Chillus are ready ..
do we have to download another ttf then?,or will the present one suffice?
Anyways thanks a lot........Once everything is in place we can start
the translations....afresh .In this men-time BUFFER area we will take
the jobs of assembling more and more volunteers to the WIKI..........
I personally has added a wiki-AD signature to my mail-IDs and will be
glad  to help out more in the WIKI initiative
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On 7/12/05, Mahesh T. Pai <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anoop Alias said on Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 06:11:03PM +0530,:
> 
>  > can see  malayalam but  all in a  mess "paradana thalu'  instead of
>  > pradhana!!, can anyone help  me in installing malayalam font(how we
>  > do
> 
> That is  because there  are disagreements about  how to  interpret and
> implemnt  standards. M$ implements  Unicode its  own round  about way,
> GTK/Pango implements  it the straightforward  way, but the  some fonts
> follow M$, others follow GTK/pango.
> 
>  > install fonts in general) and how to set the keyboard ??
>  > i am using GNU/Linux-GNOME-FireFox
> 
> 1, Right click on the panel and select ``add to panel''.
> 
> 2. Scroll down to ``keyboard Indicator'' and select it.
>    This will add the keyboard switcher applet to the panel.
> 
> 3. Right  click on  the panel,  select the  ``layout'' tab  select the
>    ``add'' button, go down to the ``Malayalam'' option, and add it.
> 
> 4. You can input Malayalam by clicking on the keyboard layout switcher
>    applet.  It will  show ``USA''  for  ENglish layout,  and Mal  when
>    Malayalam is enabled.
> 
> KDE  too  has  its  own  way  of  doing this;  and  you  can  use  the
> ``ctrl+shift+k'' combination to switch between various layouts. I used
> to have three - Malayalam, Hindi and English.
> 
> If you wish to do translation,  you may have to live with bad rendering
> for the time  being; so long as you enter  the correct codepoints, you
> will be all right.
> 
> BTW, the  chillu characters have  been accepted for encoding,  and the
> code points  have to  be finalised. AFAICT,  it will take  another two
> months before  chillus are  allotted code points,  and I  suggest that
> translation work wait till them. Please  feel free to find me wrong on
> this.
> 
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