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Tux Speaking local language

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BONZI Original post #1
Dec 13, 2006 at 5:31 PM
I am planning to localise(malayalam) Gnome. But where do I find a driver for keyboard. Is it existing?
desertwind
Dec 13, 2006 at 6:19 PM
Localization is not an easy task. It need a lot of efforts. if you're ready for that, It's very nice.

BTW, GNOME is localization for Malayalam is already going on.
Please Visit Swathantra Malayalam Computing.

You can contact me for any contact or guidelines.
desertwind
Dec 15, 2006 at 2:34 AM
There is a group from NIT calicut working on gnome localization and pango actively.
*glugc.nitc.ac.in

Recently a group has successfully completed localization for Debian Installer.

*fci.wikia.com/wiki/Debian/മലയാളം/ഇന്സ്റ്റാളര്

Also visit *plus.sarovar.org

Regarding malayalam key map
*www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0D00.pdf is the unicode keymapping for malayalam

You can also visit the following links for more info about malayalam keymap
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_script
*sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5819
*kelkiosk.keltron.co.in/malayalam/home.html
*linux-n-malayalam.blogspot.com/2005/09/mozhi-based-keymap-for-linux-version.html
praka123
Dec 15, 2006 at 3:26 AM
For Other Indian Language localization,U can contact Indlinux
*indlinux.org/
*indlinux.org/wiki/