Need help with Tamil language support

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varaahan · #1 Post by **varaahan** » Thu 15 Jun 2006, 14:12

My mother tongue is Tamil.
I don't know how to input Tamil alphabets.
I need a keyboard driver under phonetic system
with Unicode support.
Some ttf fonts may also be used for this.

phantrongnghia · #2 Post by **phantrongnghia** » Fri 16 Jun 2006, 02:37

What Input method of your country ( such as Vietnamese is x-unikey)?
You installed successfully you Tamil typing in other distro?And can type good in other distro(ubuntu,suse...)?
Can you give me your Tamil inputmethod and user guide?
Nghia

Hacao · #3 Post by **Hacao** » Fri 16 Jun 2006, 03:46

Hi !

We will make Tamil Puppy by remaster Hacao (easy way) & add your typing software. You can tranlate Tamil language for us to make it.

Thanks,

#4 Post by MU » Fri 16 Jun 2006, 10:09

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8417

This should add tamil input method to leafpad, abiword, gnumeric.

If the font does not support Tamil, try this one.
It is much larger, with hebrew and arab, so with some luck, it supports Tamil, too.
http://www.ipd.uka.de/~muelle/ARIALUNI.zip

Mark

varaahan · #5 Post by **varaahan** » Fri 16 Jun 2006, 13:38

Although I have Slackware,PCLinuxOS,Puppy in my box , I have not tried to use Tamil in linux. I have used a software "kural" from www.kstarsoft.com which is compatible with windows. They use unicode and TSCKural ttf fonts and the input method is selectable bteween Tamil Typewriter layout as well as Phonetic layout.
I don't know Tamil typing and so I use phonetic keyboard.

If I could get to know how to compose in Tamil, I will give Windows its seat in coffin. From linux I can view Tamil sites but composing a mail in Tamil in Thunderbird or writing in a word processor is still eluding me in linux.

varaahan · #6 Post by **varaahan** » Sat 17 Jun 2006, 13:58

phantrongnghia wrote:What Input method of your country ( such as Vietnamese is x-unikey)?
You installed successfully you Tamil typing in other distro?And can type good in other distro(ubuntu,suse...)?
Can you give me your Tamil inputmethod and user guide?
Nghia

There is one Tamil editor for unix "akaraam" . I don't know if it works in all linux distros.

http://www.tamil.net/tscii/akaram.tar.Z
(this is the download link)

The main page is http://www.infitt.org/tscii/archives/msg00929.html

I have not tried this so far.

#7 Post by MU » Sat 17 Jun 2006, 15:40

gives a "page not found"-error

...google...
there it is:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/tabfonts.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/akaram.zip

But I get an error when I run it, and I don't know Tcl/TK enough to fix it

Mark

#8 Post by MU » Sat 17 Jun 2006, 16:35

I made a Dotpup of Akaram including everything:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=54121#54121
Mark

raffy · #9 Post by **raffy** » Mon 24 Jul 2006, 01:08

Inserting these links under this thread for the readers:

Editor
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8734

Dotpups and Success!
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=9560

pmshah · #10 Post by **pmshah** » Thu 31 Aug 2006, 07:34

Tamil fonts are definitely unicode. You can try to get the ttf ones off of Leap-Lite word processor for Windows from C-Dac Pune. It has a whole collection of Indian fonts. C-Dac has transliteration software covering over 25 Asian languages so they might even have something on phonetis leyboard.

I believe you can get these for free.

Sit Heel Speak · #11 Post by **Sit Heel Speak** » Thu 31 Aug 2006, 19:32

pmshah wrote:Tamil fonts are definitely unicode. You can try to get the ttf ones off of Leap-Lite word processor...

Varaahan and I explored Tamil fonts in the other thread

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=62293

There is a download site for three Tamil .ttf fonts in that thread. It is the page

www.ahobilam.com/tamil

and instructions for employing these fonts are in that thread, if carefully perused.

Santyam Karunam Karma,
SHS

mauran · #12 Post by **mauran** » Mon 16 Oct 2006, 20:06

Accidently I came accross this conversation.
sounds interesting.

I'm hanging around with linux tamil localization for some years. Now I'm with Ubuntu.

Hre are some tips for you guys,

these are the packeges you need to install on puppy to get Tamil work well.

1. pango - Unicode renderer
2. pango enabled browser - pass MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO=1 when launch it
3. Tamil Unicode fonts. can download some FOSS fonts on www.thamizha.com
4. GTK-IM package for tamil
5. scim
6. scim-tables
7. scim tables data
8. scim-m17n
9. m17n libs. m17n-db
10 libotf

If you want interface in Tamil, you have to install some translation packages. or get gettext packages of puppy and translate it.

anyone have interest in remastering and enableing tamil in puppy please contact me via email mmauran@gmail.com
I like to talk with you all.

thanks

-M.Mauran

mauran · #13 Post by **mauran** » Mon 16 Oct 2006, 20:09

hey
just now I saw the link
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=9560

you have done lot of things.

Thanks.

sorry for my previous reply. i didn't read this thred carefully.

kishore · #14 Post by **kishore** » Tue 06 Feb 2007, 06:50

You can have jwm menu in tamil this way,

1. cd /
2. tar -zxvf /pathto/tamil.tar.gz
3. chooselocale (select ta_IN)
4. edit /root/.jwmrc (sample DOTjwmrc for marathi included)
5. restart window manager.

I did it successfuly to get Marathi using gargi.ttf font.

anni123 · #15 Post by **anni123** » Sun 27 May 2007, 10:58

hi!!

i saw a new thing over net recently. i want to share that over here.
if one can talk well in tamil , this will definitely help

http://quillpad.in

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