Why pilgrim does not support indic language

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 10:08 +0530, sachin Tawniya wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I have tried pilgrim with fedora and olpc development repo. Also I
> added gnome-session and scim things with some indic language support.
> I got ISO image with gnome and scim activated things. I can operate in
> common indic language like Hindi and can use it with terminal, text
> editor etc... 
> 
> Issue with me is, when I want my desktop should come in local
> language, it's not providing any indic language selection menu.
> Take a example of Indic-Hindi. I have installed m17n-dn-hindi,
> fonts-hindi etc.. 
> While login if I select change language option, it doesn't provide
> option for hindi (Indic Language)
> 
> Can any one give me some reference over it or any suggestions for
> supporting/enabling Indic Language in OLPC ISO. 
> 
> Any suggestions will be appreciated.

First, Sugar and activities need to be translated.  Please see
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_Translations

Second, since we work off dedicated hardware we can tell what language
the device is laid out for. Please look at /etc/init.d/olpc-configure to
see how we configure languages. 

Third, no one has put work in creating a language selection menu though
I think we do need some sort of place to make it easy to override the
default settings.  Patches welcomed.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>