[olpc-community-support] XO language support

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Dec 19, 2007, at 4:51 , iankile wrote:

>
> Awesome. Thanks. Yeah, Devanagari is used in both Hindi and  
> Nepali.  Very handy when trying to learn them both.  Lots of  
> overlap.  :)
>
> I changed the language to Hindi in the control panel and restarted  
> but instead of the characters all I get are boxes with what looks  
> like hexidecimal in them.
>
> Do I need to download a character set or are all supported  
> languages preloaded and I just did something wrong?

The preinstalled fonts do not have Devanagari characters. Last week  
we installed the Kalamati font which worked nicely. IIRC you just  
have to drop the ttf file into /usr/share/fonts and then rerun fc-cache.

Cheers from Kathmandu,

- Bert -