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# Internationalization/Indic

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This page explains how setup your Arch installation in order to input Indic languages.

## Fonts

The following packages provide fonts for a variety of Indic scripts,

- ttf-indic-otf
- lohit-fontsAUR

## Locale

Setting up the locale will ensure that applications use appropriate localizations when available. Setup your locale by following instructions here.

## Ibus

Since, Keyboards with Indic layouts are extremely rare, you are likely to want to use transliteration. The package ibus-m17n provides transliteration schemes for Sanskrit, Assamese, Bengali, Burmese, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu & Tibetan amongst others.

- Install the ibus and ibus-m17n packages
- Start Ibus-daemon:

    # ibus-daemon &

- Add input methods by clicking on 'Preferences' under the system-tray icon, or via:

    # ibus-setup

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