You can then configure SCIM imput method and choose tamil as one of the input methods.
The rpm is called 'scim-lang-tamil', so issuing 'yum install scim-lang-tamil' should get the tamil language pack. Out of the currently supported 30+ languages tamil unicode is also one among them.
SCIM is a platform, which provides not only a user friendly, full featured input method user interface for POSIX-style operating systems (including Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix), but also a development platform to make input method development easier. SCIM stands for Smart Common Input Method. `dnf install lohit-tamil-fonts.noarch` will do the trick for you. You can pick one or all of the font packs and install it using dnf. Tesseract-script-tamil.noarch : Tamil script data for tesseract-tessdata Samyak-tamil-fonts.noarch : Open Type Fonts for Tamil script Lohit-tamil-fonts.noarch : Free truetype font for Tamil language Lohit-tamil-classical-fonts.noarch : Free Tamil Classical sans-serif font Kde-i18n-Tamil.noarch : Tamil(ta) language support for KDE3 Google-noto-serif-tamil-vf-fonts.noarch : Serif Tamil variable font Google-noto-serif-tamil-slanted-vf-fonts.noarch : Serif Tamil Slanted variable font Google-noto-serif-tamil-slanted-fonts.noarch : Serif Tamil Slanted font Google-noto-serif-tamil-fonts.noarch : Serif Tamil font Google-noto-sans-tamil-vf-fonts.noarch : Sans Tamil variable font Google-noto-sans-tamil-ui-vf-fonts.noarch : Sans Tamil UI variable font Google-noto-sans-tamil-ui-fonts.noarch : Sans Tamil UI font Google-noto-sans-tamil-fonts.noarch : Sans Tamil font `dnf search *tamil*` command will give you the list of available tamil fonts Linux has native support for unicode, but you might need to install the tamil language pack. You can use the font converter located here in to convert from TSCII to unicode. Nonetheless TSCII was once a popular scheme and so you can still find websites using them. Many of the websites(including Project Madurai) that used TSCII are now offering unicode version. TSCII encodes the characters in visual (written) order, paralleling the use of the Tamil Typewriter.
Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange (TSCII) is another coding scheme for representing the Tamil script. You can also download tamil fonts from this link. If you are a website owner and you are using other schemes such as TSCII or TAM you are strongly encouraged to convert your site to unicode tamil. This article for the most part deals with only unicode tamil. Same applies for tamil unicode support as well. So the chances are your language of choice can be displayed and viewed correctly without any additional setup from the user. Almost all modern operating systems and browsers support unicode and many of them ship with font packs for all the major international languages. With the introduction of unicode all this changed.
Previously many of the non-English languages created their own scheme and working with them mostly involved hacks at every level.
To install the fonts in Ubuntu machine you can do the following:ġ) Download the ZIP file of this repositoryĢ) You need root permissions to run the file 'ubuntu_install.sh'ģ) Run the file '$sudo. Adding this file for trial on 2011.10.09 Thamizha hackthon day