![]() However, I would recommend first tweaking your input method, because although the hi-itrans transliteration scheme is by far the most user-friendly of those available (in being relatively phonetic), it has a few problems. If you were to restart X or reboot at this point, you should be able to type in Devanagari with ease using ibus / m17n. Set up SCIM to run at startup by going to System > Preferences > Sessions > Startup Program > + Add > Command and enter bashrc file in your home directory and restart X. Also, it should no longer be necessary, but if in the end SCIM does not work properly at startup, you could also add the last three lines of code above to the. Note: A more general alternative to the first command is simply "im-switch -z all_ALL -s scim" which may be preferable depending on your language setup. Sudo aptitude install ttf-devanagari-fonts scim-qtimm scim-tables-additional scim-bridge scim-m17n m17n-lib-bin m17n-db scim-bridge-client-qt4 skim im-switchĬonfigure your system by entering the following commands in a terminal (for those not in the US, enter the appropriate language / country codes in place of "en_US"): For those on other Debian systems, who lack the helpful Ubuntu menu mentioned above, you can manually install the packages with the following: That should have pulled in both the Scim input method editor and the Devanagari fonts packages necessary for unicode input. Go to: System > Administration > Language Support, check the box for Hindi, click Apply and then the select box for Enable support to enter complex characters. Before beginning, you might want to check out the SCIM documentation for Ubuntu here () and here (). This has worked well in Ubuntu for some time now, it just requires a little system configuration (less now than previously). all suggestions / feedback / improvements welcome! General disclaimer: I am still a linux beginner and I've never written an official "tips and tricks" post before, so 1. Scroll down below the quote for specific instructions on my recommendations for better Sanskrit input.įor anyone having difficulty setting up their system to handle Sanskrit input, I'd like to point you to the relevant documentation and provide a few tips to save you a few hours of googling and trial and error. I'll leave the now-obsolete steps previously required for SCIM configuration in a quote below for those on older versions of Ubuntu (or other varieties of Debian), for the sake of reference. Once you hit ctrl-space, the ibus daemon should start up and you can begin typing in Devanagari by adding the Hindi Itrans input to your keyboard switcher. That's it - too simple! You may need to log out and log back in (i.e., restart X) for ibus to work. ![]() Then click the button Install / Remove Languages., click Hindi and Apply Changes ![]() Go to System > Administration > Language Support, and in the Language Tab select ibus for your "Keyboard Input Method System" For phonetic Devanāgarī, all you need to do is: It is now ready to go practically out of the box and setting up phonetic देवनागरी and Transliteration inputs is a trivial affair. Update: In the new releases since this post was written, Ubuntu has come a very long way with preconfiguring the input method editor, now ibus (formerly SCIM), for us.
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