8. GNOME
GNOME Tamil localization works have just begun. There are
few applications for which Tamil menus are translated, and are
available. But it is yet to become the official member of GNOME
i18n distribution.
In order to use them, download the currently available files
from:
http://www.tamillinux.org/gnome/gnome.html
and put them into the directory
/usr/share/locale/ta/LCMESSAGES/.
Under GNOME Control Panel you have set the fonts (both in
Themes and the Window Manger applet) to a TSCII font.
You need to create binary messages from the po
files. This is done as follows:
msgfmt xxx.po -o /usr/share/locale/ta/LCMESSAGES/xxx.mo.
Note that the binary messages files contain an extension .mo
as opposed to .po for the text file.
In order for you see Tamil, you have to set the locale to
Tamil.
If you are using bash as your shell, then enter the
following line in your home directory.
export LANG=ta
export LANGUAGE=ta
export LC ALL=ta
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Restart the X server. You should see Tamil menus and
dialogs in many of the GNOME enabled applications. Once again,
please consider contributing to the Tamil GNOME Project; we need a
lot of volunteers. Contact Dinesh <(n_dinesh at yahoo.com)> or through tamilinix yahoogroups.
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