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New Lohit Devanagari font replaces the previous separate Lohit fonts for Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, and Nepali. | New Lohit Devanagari font replaces the previous separate Lohit fonts for Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, and Nepali. | ||
Any distinct glyphs for these languages can be handled in Lohit Devanagari with Open Type Font locl tags. | Any distinct glyphs for these languages needed in the future can be handled in Lohit Devanagari with Open Type Font locl tags. | ||
== Yum Langpacks Plugin == | == Yum Langpacks Plugin == | ||
Revision as of 07:58, 11 March 2010
Internationalization
ibus
Support share a global input method in all applications.
ibus-fbterm (IBus front-end for fbterm) - Input at framebuffer mode of console with IBus.
Pinyin engine has been reimplemented in C++ with improved performance of fuzzy pinyin.
Hangul engine now supports romaja style input.
ibus-table-quick was merged into ibus-table-cangjie, and new tables added for Smart Cangjie 6, Quick (classic), and Easy (Big).
New Chinese Font
The default font for Simplified Chinese is now WQY Zenhei.
Lohit Devanagari
New Lohit Devanagari font replaces the previous separate Lohit fonts for Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, and Nepali.
Any distinct glyphs for these languages needed in the future can be handled in Lohit Devanagari with Open Type Font locl tags.
Yum Langpacks Plugin
A new feature is yum-langpacks plugin which allows automatic installation of langpacks for various packages.
Glibc Locales and Collation
- New locale kok_IN (Konkani Language locale for India: around 3.6 million speakers) for Devanagari script added.
- Collation for Tamil and Assamese is now available in all locales.