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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

International Language Support Guide

Internationalization Guide

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Abstract
This book is about international language support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

1. Introduction
2. Installing and supporting languages
2.1. Adding language support during installation
2.2. Adding language support after installation
3. Changing the default language
4. Keyboard installation and configuration
4.1. Configuring the keyboard after installation
5. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 System Documentation
6. Fonts
6.1. Adding new fonts for a user
6.2. Adding new fonts for all users
6.3. Working with legacy fonts
6.3.1. Adding Fonts to xfs
7. Smart Common Input Method
7.1. Configuring SCIM
8. Writing Asian and Indic Languages
8.1. How to write in Japanese
8.2. How to write in Chinese
8.2.1. Writing in Simplified Chinese with Smart Pinyin
8.2.2. Writing in Traditional Chinese with Chewing
8.3. How to write in Korean
8.4. How to write in Indic Languages
9. Advanced Topics
9.1. Using the iconv tool
9.2. Using the convmv tool
10. Language support in shipped applications
10.1. Language support in Firefox
10.2. Language support in Evolution
10.3. Language support in gedit
A. Keyboard layouts
A.1. Indic Languages