There has been a bug in Pango rendering of Kannada Unicode characters for a long time now. I have filed the bug report about it on GNOME bugzilla. If you are a Linux user using Kannada, please confirm the bug on the above link.

Anyone interested can take up the bug and file a patch for it on the same bugzilla.

Volunteers interested could refer to the previous Indic patches filed by Rahul Bhalerao:
1. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356685
2. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357790
3. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358174

There is some serious translation happening at:

http://translate.sampada.net

Volunteers interested in taking part, can head straight to the above page and start translating and adding suggestions.

Kannada Localization project needs volunteers to digitize Kannada words from a book to be put in Public Domain.

Those who're interested, can write to webmaster AT sampada.net for more information and for information on how to take part in the project.

Members registered on Kannada Localization Initiative have been auto-added to the translators mailing list that was setup recently. Please feel free to un-subscribe from the list if you wish not to receive updates about ongoing translations.

Mailing list Information:
http://www.sampada.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/translators

Un-subscribe link:
http://www.sampada.info/cgi-bin/mailman/options/translators

Volunteers who wish to help out in translation can now sign up on

Sampada Translators mailing list and start interacting.

Presently, we are building an on-line collaborative translation tool over Drupal. Those who are interested in participating can put a message across on the above list to hook up.

List of mailing lists on Sampada initiative: http://www.sampada.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/

There had been few discussions about the SCIM Issue and the rendering issues in Breezy with Kannada.

Here's another update apart from what has been discussed in the above links. The package "free-fonts" on Breezy causes some weirdo problems with Kannada rendering. The characters get garbled on gedit and almost all GNOME based applications.

Make sure you have uninstalled this particular package to get rid of that problem.

Hope this helps Ubuntu breezy users.

Friends,

Here's a patched version of kannada itrans input scheme for SCIM, m17n. (Find the file attached to this post). Here are the instructions to use it:

(Assuming that you've installed SCIM and m17n, m17n-db on your favourite Linux Distribution)

* Login as root (or use sudo, fakeroot or anything similar).
* Unzip the file to /usr/share/m17n/

Reboot by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Backspace.

Change Log:

The following letters have been re-mapped or added.

ಋ - Ru (changed - was previously RRi)
ೠ - RU (changed - was previously RRI)
ಳ್ಳು - LLu (added)

can be downloaded from here.

Go get PoEdit for translations.