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221 lines
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><TITLE
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>GNOME</TITLE
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NAME="GENERATOR"
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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REL="HOME"
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TITLE="Tamil Linux HOWTO"
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HREF="index.html"><LINK
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REL="PREVIOUS"
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TITLE="KDE"
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HREF="x304.html"><LINK
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REL="NEXT"
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TITLE="Printing"
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><TR
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><TH
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COLSPAN="3"
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ALIGN="center"
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>Tamil Linux HOWTO</TH
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><H1
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><A
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NAME="AEN349"
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></A
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>8. GNOME</H1
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>GNOME Tamil localization works have just begun. There are
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few applications for which Tamil menus are translated, and are
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available. But it is yet to become the official member of GNOME
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i18n distribution.</P
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><P
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>In order to use them, download the currently available files
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from:</P
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><P
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><A
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HREF="http://www.tamillinux.org/gnome/gnome.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.tamillinux.org/gnome/gnome.html</A
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>
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</P
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><P
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>and put them into the directory
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<TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>/usr/share/locale/ta/LCMESSAGES/</TT
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>.
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</P
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><P
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>Under GNOME Control Panel you have set the fonts (both in
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Themes and the Window Manger applet) to a TSCII font.</P
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><P
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>You need to create binary messages from the <TT
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CLASS="varname"
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>po</TT
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>
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files. This is done as follows:</P
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><P
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> <B
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CLASS="command"
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>msgfmt xxx.po -o /usr/share/locale/ta/LCMESSAGES/xxx.mo</B
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>.
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</P
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><P
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>Note that the binary messages files contain an extension <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>.mo</TT
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>
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as opposed to <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>.po</TT
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> for the text file.</P
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><P
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>In order for you see Tamil, you have to set the locale to
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Tamil.</P
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><P
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>If you are using bash as your shell, then enter the
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following line in your home directory.</P
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><P
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BORDER="0"
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BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
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><TR
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><FONT
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
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CLASS="screen"
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> export LANG=ta
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export LANGUAGE=ta
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export LC ALL=ta
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</PRE
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></FONT
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></TD
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></TR
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></TABLE
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></P
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><P
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>Restart the X server. You should see Tamil menus and
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dialogs in many of the GNOME enabled applications. Once again,
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please consider contributing to the Tamil GNOME Project; we need a
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lot of volunteers. Contact Dinesh <TT
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CLASS="email"
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><<A
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HREF="mailto:(n_dinesh@yahoo.com)"
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>(n_dinesh@yahoo.com)</A
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>></TT
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> or through tamilinix yahoogroups.</P
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><P
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> </P
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>Prev</A
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VALIGN="top"
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HREF="index.html"
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>Home</A
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>Next</A
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WIDTH="33%"
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ALIGN="left"
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>KDE</TD
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ALIGN="center"
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> </TD
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ALIGN="right"
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