Howto Install SCIM's Tamil Remington Layout

  • This has worked for
    • Fedora Core 3,
    • SuSE 10.0/10.1
    • Archlinux

(pl. add here other distros it worked on)

  • Install SCIM & Make sure SCIM Tamil works for the inscript/phonetic layouts
  • Download rpm and instal by running the command

$ rpm -ivh TamilRemington?-1.2-1.i386.rpm

OR

$ tar -zxvf TamilRemington?-1.2-1.tar.gz

  • Run the following commands:

$ cd tables

$ su

Password:

$ make

  • logout and login
  • You should now be able to type by selecting the Tamil Remington layout from SCIM icon

How Tamil Remington Layout for SCIM was created

  • Parimala created a mapping between each Tamil character and the corresponding key(s) that need to be pressed in an English qwert keyboard. Parimala knows Tamil typing and visited a nearby typing institute to confirm all aspects of the layout.
  • Hariram checked and modified the layout file. and created a SCIM table based on SCIM table howto and SCIM's Tamil phonetic layout
  • Srinivasan made corrections to the layout based on feedback from users at ELCOT (see source)
  • The TamilRemington?-1.2-1.i386.rpm fixes the double space bar problem. The older rpm can be found here. Similarly here is the ver 1.1 tar file
  • The spec file used to generate the ver. 1.2-1 rpm can be found here .

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