ubuntu karmic, the 9.10 version, a wonderful operating system, not only for techs but also for novices, has a awesome features and functionality. Indeed, it supports almost all languages on earth, one of such language is telugu, one can install telugu by few clicks of commands from the terminal:
sudo apt-get install ttf-telugu-fonts language-pack-te
If u want to use telugu with the help of SCIM, it is very simple, just follow as below;
1. install SCIM, by typing the follwing statements;
sudo apt-get install scim-m17n
2. download m17n library files (it is indeed tar.gz file, you need to google around to install this file) from the following link;
www.m17n.org/m17n-lib-download/m17n-contrib-1.1.6.tar
or at least telugu RTS fonts can be downloaded form the terminal, by following the below statements;
wget http://abhiomkar.googlepages.com/te-rts.mim
after that do this, at terminal;
sudo cp te-rts.mim /usr/share/m17n/
Just that’s all…….The installation is over, now, restart the SCIM, from the RUN command (Alt+F2, and them type SCIM, then press OK), you can find a short button at right side of the top panel in desktop. Now go to a place where u want to type telugu, like gedit text editor, and then right click, select ‘SCIM Bridge Input Method‘ in input methods. Then after go to the SCIM icon in right side of the top panel and single click on the icon, then you get list of languages(that which are enabled in SCIM setup), selct Telugu-rts option. That’s all now the excellent telugu will be on your favorable text editor.