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

[Santhosh Thottingal]

On 11/6/07, പ്രവീണ് <me.praveen 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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