[smc-discuss] Re: Reading Malayalam in Redhat Linux

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There is no particular reason for using this Linux instead this is my
office computer ;-) Any way pls help me.

On Nov 7, 9:10 am, "Santhosh Thottingal" <santhos... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/6/07, പ്രവീണ് <me.prav... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I am Praveen, I know nothing about Linux. I need to read Unicode
> > Malayalam in my Linux machine, which shows "Red hat Linux Enterprise
> > Linux WS(2.6.9 - 5-EL)" while booting. After I execute some packages
> > "smc-mgl.0.0.2.tar.gz" from somewhere(I forgot where I downloaded it).
> > My Malayalam display at the title bar of the browser(Firefox) is fine.
> > But no where else it render correctly. If you can help me, I am very
> > thankful to you.
>
> Praveen,
> can you tell me what is the output of this command in your system?
> pango-querymodules --version
>
> For best malayalam rendering, we need to apply "suruma" patch on the
> pango rendering engine. For that we need to know the version of pango
> in your machine.
> I guess it is 1.4 version and it is too old.
>
> Any particular  reason to use that version of GNU/Linux? Otherwise it
> is better to use new versions of Fedora or Debian.
> Malayalam support is bad in Old versions of GNU/Linux. We are trying
> to improve it in the new versions..
>
> Suresh,
>   Do we have patch for that version?
>
> Thanks
> Santhosh


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