<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Introduction</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Tamil Linux HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="About this HOWTO" HREF="x36.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Fonts" HREF="x63.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Tamil Linux HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x36.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x63.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="AEN58" ></A >2. Introduction</H1 ><P >Tamil is a member of the Dravidian languages. Its origin is in southern India and the language is written with non-Roman alphabets. So there is a need for special fonts, encoding, keyboard layout and drivers, besides localization, including currency, date format, etc. This document will give a complete overview of setting up and working in the Tamil Linux environment. There are several pieces of information and tools available for Linux in Tamil; this how-to will serve as a meta-index to all the scattered resources.</P ><P >A word before you enter - most of the fonts, tools, RPMs and documents are being gathered under one site. So try the resources at <A HREF="http://tamil.homelinux.org" TARGET="_top" >http://tamil.homelinux.org</A > before you embark on treasure-hunting.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x36.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x63.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >About this HOWTO</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Fonts</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >