[Wylug-help] Urdu Support

[david powell]

On Saturday 14 January 2006 11:21 pm, Thomas Porteus wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> have just started learning Urdu at school and want to be able to type it
> on linux. Ive had a google but nothing jumps out. Im using Ubuntu 5.10
> and ive installed all the correct fonts (i think).
>
> Any help would be great.
>
in kde if there is a translation for it you set the machine local country code 
to it and all menus dialogs and help is in that language 
think there is Urdu amongst them 

note that all  menus options and text is then in that language for that user 
account  so if you  want to use it to learn then set up a diferent user 
account for that language 

if i recall correctly urdu is written back to front form the way english is 
written or is that just  chinese  and arabic ?
so may need the language pack installing so it will allow it to work that way 

if you are interested in text to speech i know ktts does not suport urdu 
for speech there is limited language support at the moment 
en-gb en-us , de , italian , spanish , polish , czech, zulu, ibibo , and a few 
others  are supported atm

but kde has language packs and translations for most languages in current
use 

so you would need kbuntu version of linux for that
 
Dave

> Thanks in advance,
> Tom
>
>
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