One of my favorite pastimes during tenth standard was to imagine a Malayalam film being made based on Dharmaraja and see which all actors would fit into various characters. I remember the first actor I 'confirmed' was Madhu, to play the role of ageing Ananthapadmanabhan Valiya Padathalavan:). The story was inspired by The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Language: Malayalam: 6: Vikram (1986) An action-adventure film about intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), advanced computers and security systems. Language: Tamil: 7: Jaithra Yaathra (1987) A film about a scientist who invents a locket that can make people invisible.
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This guide is for configuring your computer to enable reading and writing Malayalam in Windows, and GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems.
- 1Microsoft Windows
- 2GNU/Linux and *BSD*s
Microsoft Windows[edit]
Configuring for reading[edit]
- Delete any old version of AnjaliOldLipi Font from Fonts directory which is often C:WINDOWSFonts or C:WINNTFonts.
- Download and copy AnjaliOldLipi.ttf to WindowsFonts folder.
- Click Start, Control Panel, Internet Options, Fonts. Select Language Script Malayalam. Then select Web page font as AnjaliOldLipi. Press OK and OK.
Configuring for Writing[edit]
VaramozhiVaramozhi Editor is a transliteration based Malayalam text Editor that runs on both Windows and Unix. That is, you can type in Manglish and you will see in real Malayalam.
Also, you can copy-paste any Malayalam article from some web site and that will be converted back to Manglish for correction, further editing or conversion to Unicode or another font.
Language packs[edit]
You can install the Malayalam language pack for your operating system to see the Microsoft Windows GUI in Malayalam.
![Pdf Pdf](/uploads/1/2/5/7/125758685/461012247.png)
GNU/Linux and *BSD*s[edit]
- All latest GNU/Linux distributions support Malayalam well. You may need to follow specific installation guides from Swathanthra malayalam Computing to configure it well
- You can see a how to to enable malayalam in your computer @ the Malayalam Computing Portal
Here are the steps to enable support.
- pango enabled firefox does provide good indic fonts support.In Debian GNU/Linux Iceweasel provides the best indic rendition.You can enable Gnome browser epiphany for pango support via gconf2 tool as epiphany also is based on gecko.
- If your distribution does not come with any indic font(here,Malayalam), you will need to install one.
Installing Font in Gnome,Kde and X in general[edit]
- Download Malayalam Unicode fonts] and copy it to fonts:/// Directory
- All major distributions comes with malayalam fonts. Use apt-get install ttf-malayalam-fonts in Debian based distributions(Debian Ubuntu etc ) and yum install smc-fonts in fedora
In Gnome[edit]
![Story Story](http://www.e-harikumar.com/stories_pdf/KannadaStoryGraphics/sub3.jpg)
GNOME is a versatile Desktop Environment with native pango support which means better rendering in-built.
- In Gnome,drag n drop your font to nautilus window.before,nautilus should be in Fonts:/// directory(press CTRL+L,enter fonts:/// ).
Now press CTRL+ALT+BKSPACE to restart X and gdm.next time the font is available for local user and installed in ~/.fonts/ directory.
Installing TrueType fonts in X in general and also for Gnome[edit]
- there are other ways to make font available to all users of the system in Gnome or X itself.I am taking Debian/Ubuntu as example,but works for any distro too.for redhat/fedora and Suse or most distros this works.rpm based distros got a tool called chkfontpath which is very useful.
Now,you need to use CLI or terminal for implementing this.firstly:
using apt package management tool or use Synaptic Manager.make a directory called malayalam and copy the Anjali font to there.
then go to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/malayalam/ -where font is installed.You need to be root user for installing fonts globally.for that in a terminal,su [press enter]<give your root password>or sudo [press enter]<give your local password>sudo is used in Ubuntu Linux by default.
then as root('~#' stands for root prompt,dont copy that),
now do a,
restart Display(X) or reboot.As /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ directory is already mapped in Xorg for fonts.(see /etc/X11/fs/config).Now the font can be used by every users.
Kde Desktop Environment[edit]
Kde is the most used Desktop Environment in GNU/Linux and *NIX's too:
- In KDE Control Center (kcontrol), select System Administration -> Font Installer, and add the downloaded font
- You may need to logout and login back
- For Transliteration or manglish(type malayalam in English) in GNU/Linux and *BSDs,we can use a various inputs systems Swanalekha (Phonetic Keyboard using SCIM) or mozhi. otherwise you can compile from source the Varamozhi Transliteration tool for Malayalam.
Download Packages to Enable malayalam support in GNU/Linux[edit]
You can download the software required to enable Malayalam support in the latest version of Ubuntu(7.10) and Debian GNU/Linux (etch) from http://malayalam.kerala.gov.in
Use the repositories of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing to keep updated. Swathanthra Malayalam Computing manages repositories for Fedora 6, 7, 8, 9 , CentOS5 and Debain etch, lenny and sid
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