Setting up SCIM for inputing Indian languages.

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Setting up SCIM for inputing Indian languages.

#1 Post by rsamurti »

Hello,

I am trying to input in Indian Languages like Kannada/Hindi/Marathi in Geany. I have installed all the necessary SCIM packages using Synaptic. I have also enabled starting of SCIM by including scim -d command in the session start-up in XFCE. The SCIM icon appears in the panel. But I am unable to select indic language keyboard.

Any suggestions to correct this?

Thank you for your help.

Anand

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@Auro Kumar Sahoo: can you give Anand an advice how you setup works? Thanks
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#3 Post by aledie »

@rsamurti:
you guys try around the hardest solutions instead the easiest ones.
1. In Whisker XFCE menu search "keyboard", will be first entry in the list, click it.
2. Switch to section Layout. Unclick "Use system default"
3. Click add button. Find "Indian" in the list. Select appropriate layouts. I chose Hindi KaGaPa, Marathi KaGaPa, Kannada KaGaPa. OK. Close.
4. If you dont yet have a Keyboard layout indicator in your panel (I think you usually get it if you boot up with language selected other than English USA), then add it by - click the panel with right mouse button and select in popup menu -> Panel -> +add new items -> Keyboard Layouts. The flag will appear in the panel, can switch layouts now by clicking it...
EDIT: there should be a shortcut for switching between layouts, guess Ctrl+Shift or Shift+Space, look in either of those 2 Keyboard config menu or Panel indicator options, where you can change them if needed.

No SCIM or whatever installs were needed, Indic is OTB.
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Re: Setting up SCIM for inputing Indian languages.

#4 Post by Auro Kumar Sahoo »

Yes, aledie. That is the method i do for hindi and Other indian lang.
Very simple and straight.
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Re: Setting up SCIM for inputing Indian languages.

#5 Post by rsamurti »

Thank you Aledie for your help. It is working. But this supports only Kannada (KaGaPa) keyboard layout. There is no support apparently for Kannada (ITrans) keyboard layout which is available with SCIM. Am I correct?

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Re: Setting up SCIM for inputing Indian languages.

#6 Post by aledie »

@rsamurti:
Sorry, im not an Indian so rely on Google, and cannot verify that the solutions offered there give right typing output in Kannada. Bitte i'd say, as MX is basically Debian and us connected to Debian repos, all the solutions offered for Debian (and less so Ubuntu) wod also work on MX, just the tools where you select them would have different names or look slightly different but all you do in terminal will be same, maybe try.

1) I would type in XFCE menu 'locale', find System Locales item, click it and find/add the locale kn_IN.UTF-8

2) then I would also go to the menu I described in the previous post and also add the second layout available for Kannada (without brackets) in addition to Kannada (KaGaPa).

3) I would test them both in text editor, also whether using SHIFT, or ALTGR, or SHIFT+ALTGR with vowels would give you right outputs you expect.

4) if not Ibus with m17n worked for me too, I did it acc to combination of advices of these 2-3 websites, cannot tell exactly what I did but it worked, will send you a screenshot (ibus has itrans and few others, on screenshot i just typed querty...)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8t0vpD-1Mpc
https://wiki.debian.org/I18n/ibus
https://askubuntu.com/questions/515307/ ... in-kannada
https://itsfoss.com/type-indian-languages-ubuntu/
https://askubuntu.com/questions/269514/ ... ibreoffice

Then. I remember choosing IBUS Preferences in XFCE menu and selecting Kannada (itrans m17n), logout login...

Maybe you investigate on ibus yourself thoroughfully online. If it took me 10 minutes to setup (even dpnt remember how), you may succeed too.

5) on scim and fcitx there are many resources online too

P.S. Somebody described here well how he got Ibus working on MX with Amharic language, sure it isn't Kannada but from principle should be same, just choosing a different keyboard layout:
http://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php? ... f3#p449600

You may prefer to experiment on a LiveUSB first, before you find an acceptable solution an recreate it on your HD install.
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Re: Setting up SCIM for inputing Indian languages.

#7 Post by rsamurti »

Thank you so much Aledie for your detailed instructions. I will try what you have suggested and get back.

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