<p>Use SMC's swanalekha and just type into terminal. Here is a video explaining that: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBF2kyXB8v8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBF2kyXB8v8</a> In ubuntu 18.04, I was unable to search it inside software center. If that's the case, use the <a href="https://wiki.smc.org.in/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%96">terminal install method</a>. Above tool will allow you to type into terminal: <a href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/19545678/39394149-f2d3fbfe-4aeb-11e8-838e-b456facb3abc.png">https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/19545678/39394149-f2d3fbfe-4aeb-11e8-838e-b456facb3abc.png</a></p>
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<div dir="ltr">Does it play nice with IBus? The integration with IBus is not seemless - it is imperfect. I am having to enter text in gedit, and then paste it to konsole.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 28 May 2018 at 15:33, Akshay S Dinesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asdofindia@gmail.com" target="_blank">asdofindia@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br />
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<div>It is indeed possible to output malayalam correctly with a malayalam font on konsole. I've faced difficulties entering text, though. See the image attached.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, 28 May 2018 at 12:05 Jayadevan Raja <<a href="mailto:jayadevanraja@gmail.com" target="_blank">jayadevanraja@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello All,
<div>How to use Malayalam in Terminal?</div>
<div>In this link (<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/11/msg01482.html" target="_blank">https://lists.debian.org/<wbr />debian-user/2013/11/msg01482.<wbr />html</a>) "അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്" says that it is possible to use Konsole to output Malayalam text.</div>
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