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varaahan · Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 49 Location: Chennai, India

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 · Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Posts: 205 Location: Hanoi,Vietnam

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 · Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 225 Location: Saigon, Vietnam

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. Smile

Thanks,

MU · Posted: Fri 16 Jun 2006, 06:09 Post subject:

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 · Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 49 Location: Chennai, India

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 · Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 49 Location: Chennai, India

MU · Posted: Sat 17 Jun 2006, 11:40 Post subject:

gives a "page not found"-error Sad

...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 Confused

Mark

MU · Posted: Sat 17 Jun 2006, 12:35 Post subject:

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

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

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 · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 84 Location: India

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 · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 2595 Location: downwind

mauran · Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

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 · Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

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.
Shocked

kishore · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 12

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 · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 1

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

ஒரு தடவை சொன்னா நூறு தடவை சொன்னா மாதிரி
ஆண்டவன் சொல்லரான் அருணாச்சல்ம் செய்யறான்

these are some things which i typed using the tool ..just in a few seconds.
u just need to type in english what u want to say in tamil, it will do the translation.
there are also some search features available.. i found it extremely useful and i am using it nowadays to chat with my friends..
நாளை பார்க்கலாம்
நன்றி விடைபெறுகிறேன்