< I18N
Indic
Introduction
This page provides Language support matrix for Indic scripts for various components.
How to Install/Remove any Language support
To install any language support in your Fedora Desktop you need to use following command
yum groupinstall <language_name>-support
e.g. to install Hindi language support use
yum groupinstall hindi-support.
To remove any language support in your Fedora Desktop you need to use following command
yum groupremove <language_name>-support
e.g. to install Hindi language support use
yum groupremove hindi-support.
Fonts list
- Languages that are supported in glibc are shown in green colour
- Languages that are not supported in glibc are shown in red colour
| Language | Default Font package | Other available Fonts |
| Assamese | lohit-assamese-fonts | |
| Bengali | lohit-bengali-fonts | |
| Chhattisgarhi | ||
| Gujarati | lohit-gujarati-fonts | samyak-gujarati-fonts |
| Hindi | lohit-hindi-fonts | sarai-fonts, samyak-devanagari-fonts |
| Kannada | lohit-kannada-fonts | |
| Kashmiri | lohit-kashmiri-fonts | |
| Konkani | ||
| Maithili | lohit-maithili-fonts | |
| Malayalam | smc-meera-fonts | lohit-malayalam-fonts, smc-anjalioldlipi-fonts, smc-dyuthi-fonts, smc-kalyani-fonts, smc-rachana-fonts, smc-raghumalayalam-fonts, smc-suruma-fonts, samyak-malayalam-fonts |
| Marathi | lohit-marathi-fonts | |
| Nepali | madan-fonts | lohit-nepali-fonts |
| Oriya | lohit-oriya-fonts | samyak-oriya-fonts |
| Punjabi | lohit-punjabi-fonts | |
| Sanskrit | ||
| Sindhi | lohit-sindhi-fonts | |
| Tamil | lohit-tamil-fonts | samyak-tamil-fonts |
| Telugu | lohit-telugu-fonts |
Required packages for using Input method
To use any Indic keyboard layout required packages to be installed are ibus, ibus-m17n, m17n-lib, m17n-db and m17n-contrib (alternatively scim and scim-m17n as well as uim and uim-m17n can be used instead of ibus). Keyboard layouts are stored in *.mim files which are installed from m17n-db and m17n-contrib packages.
To know more about iBus check the IBus page .
To know more about scim check the SCIM page .
Keyboard Layouts
If Inscript keymap is available for any language then that is used as default keymap.
| Language | Inscript | Itrans | Phonetic | Typewriter | Others |
| Assamese | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Bengali | yes | yes | no | no | Probhat |
| Chhattisgarhi | no | no | no | no | |
| Gujarati | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Hindi | yes | yes | yes | yes | remington |
| Kannada | yes | yes | no | no | Kgp |
| Kashmiri | no | no | no | no | |
| Konkani | no | no | no | no | |
| Maithili | yes | no | no | no | |
| Malayalam | yes | yes | no | no | Mozhi, Swanalekha |
| Marathi | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Oriya | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Punjabi | yes | yes | yes | no | Jhelum |
| Sanskrit | no | no | no | no | harvard-kyoto |
| Sindhi | yes | no | no | no | no |
| Tamil | yes | yes | yes | yes | Tamil99, lk-renganathan |
| Telugu | yes | yes | no | no | Apple, Pothana, Rts |
| Nepali | no | no | no | no | Rom, Trad |
| Sinhala | no | no | no | no | Wijesekera, Samanala, phonetic-dynamic, phonetic-static, trans |
Dictionaries
Fedora 9 onwards we have hunspell packages as part of spell checker dictionary support for all major applications and default GNOME/KDE spell checking. But still some packages are using aspell dictionaries.The preference order for various dictionaries is defined currently in /usr/share/enchant/enchant.ordering file.
Fedora 11 onwards we have hyphen packages as part of hyphenation dictionary support for OpenOffice.org applications.
| Language | hunspell | hyphen |
| Assamese | N/A | N/A |
| Bengali | hunspell-bn | hyphen-sa |
| Chhattisgarhi | N/A | N/A |
| Gujarati | hunspell-gu | hyphen-gu |
| Hindi | hunspell-hi | hyphen-hi |
| Kannada | N/A | hyphen-kn |
| Kashmiri | N/A | N/A |
| Konkani | N/A | N/A |
| Maithili | N/A | N/A |
| Malayalam | hunspell-ml | hyphen-ml |
| Marathi | hunspell-mr | N/A |
| Nepali | hunspell-ne | N/A |
| Oriya | hunspell-or | hyphen-or |
| Punjabi | hunspell-pa | hyphen-pa |
| Sanskrit | N/A | hyphen-sa |
| Sindhi | N/A | N/A |
| Tamil | hunspell-ta | hyphen-ta |
| Telugu | hunspell-te | hyphen-te |