Tibetan Input Methods in Linux

[knowone]

Hi Duncan. I can see by the prototype screen shots that you are using
Ubuntu. I'm currently running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron and spent last
night trying to figure out what input methods are currently available
and how to get them working. I installed the Tibetan Machine Uni font,
UIM and m17n libraries from the repositories. After that, I ran this
command to make the system tray widget available:

sudo im-switch -s uim-systray

I was then able to type Tibetan in OpenOffice and other applications,
although it seems to be using the regular wylie input method and not
EWTS. There are also some display issues with line-height and glyphs
being cropped on-screen. Different input methods using m17n (included
EWTS) are listed here:

http://www.m17n.org/common/m17n-docs-en/m17nDBData.html#mim-list

Just trying to piece together what is currently available and how to
get it working. I've combed through Google search results and there is
not a lot of information. Do you or anyone else have an input method
working in Linux that uses EWTS?

[Chris Fynn]

In Linux you can also use the XKB for Dongkha (DZ) to input Tibetan.
This is included in XFree-86.
The Dzongkha keyboard is not a Wylie input method and uses a simple
KA, KHA, GA ... layout

- Chris

[Duncan McGreggor]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Chris Fynn <Chris...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In Linux you can also use the XKB for Dongkha (DZ) to input Tibetan.
> This is included in XFree-86.
> The Dzongkha keyboard is not a Wylie input method and uses a simple
> KA, KHA, GA ... layout

Oh, sweet... I didn't know about that!

d