[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] tux type to sinhala

[David Bruce]

Hi Nilmini,

On Wednesday 21 May 2008 02:40:26 am you wrote:
> dear sir
>
> I downloaded the tuxtype-1[1].5.16-win32-installer version and installed.

The Windows version of tuxtype does not use SDL_Pango, which is necessary for 
correct Indic language display.  We hope to add this in the next few months.  
SDL_Pango was added to the Linux build last year for this reason, but we have 
not yet worked out how to do this for Windows.

>  If we can change source cord, how we can start
>
> What are the software

The web site for tuxtype and tuxmath is:

http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org (or http://www.tux4kids.com).

The source code is in a Subversion repository at:

svn://svn.debian.org/tux4kids/


Basically, tuxtype is a native Linux program, and you will not be able to get 
any Indic languages to display correctly in Windows until a lot of work gets 
done on the program (specifically, changing the program to use GNU Gettext 
and getting the Windows crossbuild to support both Gettext and SDL_Pango).  
If you want to help, you are extremely welcome, but you probably can't do 
much using Windows.  I make all the Windows builds on my Debian Linux 
computer, because I couldn't easily get a native Windows build set up.  In my 
experience, Linux is a vastly better system for any sort of cross-platform 
development.  It is hard to do anything on Windows that will work with 
non-Windows computers.

Also, it would be better to direct questions to the tuxtype developer's list:

<tux4kids-tuxtype-dev at lists.alioth.debian.org>

Regards,

-- 
David Bruce