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Installing Urdu Keyboard Layout in Ubuntu

raoraheel1 Comment
Now I needed Urdu Keyboard setup for my Ubuntu. I knew that installing them on Windows system was too simple as I just downloaded an executable and installed the keyboard and then selected that in the keyboard layout. Searching for same to work for my Ubuntu I stopped my search at Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing was where I found everything I need.The link below had the fonts as well as the layout for keyboard. I have a good hand on Phonetic and same was available here..yay!!http://www.crulp.org/software/localization.htm

Downloaded the zipped fonts as well as the keyboard layout and started with copying the fonts to the fonts directory.

sudo nautilus fonts:

After this the keyboard layout needed to be edit with the new one which was obtained from below link.

http://www.crulp.org/Downloads/ur.zip

Using this command I opened the layout file and copied the contents of ur.txt file present in ur.zip, obtained above.

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pk

After saving the changes adding Pakistan keyboard layout at System > Preferences > Layout did the trick. To place a shortcut with which I can easily switch between the layouts, I added Keyboard Indicator to the panel.

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