Language Support Index: PuppyLinux

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বাংলা	català	中國的	Deutsch	español	Français	ελληνικά	Magyar	italiano	日本語
한국인	Nederlands	Polski	Português	Русско	Svenska	ภาษาไทย	English	tiếng Việt	-

Displaying Characters from Additional Languages

Ensure a font is a installed that contains the characters from the additional language. Also the encoding setting of a program may need changing.

CJK_fonts-ttf.pet post - contains Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts.

Chinese Language Pets - Chinese font and SCIM PETs

More font sets including Hindi and Thai

Switching Localization SCIM

Instructions for setting up Puppy to allow typing in non-latin character sets, such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, etc. This is different from a full localization because the underlying system is still in English or another Western language, see SCIM SCIM (smart common input method) for more information.

Keyboard Setup

HowToChangeAddKeyboardLayout How to Add Keyboard Layout

SCIM - switching localization, input many different languages

KeyboardLayouts Alternative Keyboard Layouts

fbxkb - current keyboard language indicator

InputDevices Input Device Index - more input options

Application Localization

a choice of langpack available for download

MoManager - Translation script manager

GetText - localization standard at programming language level

HOWTO internationalize applications

Xarchive internationalised

Tray applets internationalised

Woof2 localization support

Bulldog Finder - right click file finder (supports NLS characters)

Language support on this Wiki

LanguageBars - an attempt to improve multilingual support

LanguageCodes Language Codes

NLS Package

If a package has NLS in its title then it usually refers to the fact it contains Native Language Support. For example, translation of an applications interface. Often translations are provided as an additional package.