here is a font package which contains the Tamil OpenType fonts available on http://tamil.homelinux.org/ which are created by T. Vaseeharan <t_vasee@yahoo.com> Thukkaram Gopalrao, USA http://www.thinnai.com/ R. Kalaimani, Tharagai Software, Singapore. Vasu Devan, Kamban Software, Australia. http://www.kamban.com.au/ Akruti Ltd., Bombay, India http://www.akruti.com/ ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-noarch/fonts-tamil-0.20030512-0.noarch.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-src/fonts-tamil-0.20030512-0.src.rpm When installing this font package and the package with the Tamil KDE translations (kde3-i18n-ta), switching the language to Tamil in the KDE control centre and selecting the font "Tscu_paranar" in the KDE font settings, it looks like in this screen shot: http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/misc/G-Rajesh-Iyer-20030513/kcontrol-tamil.png I'm happy to hear feedback and suggestions what else is needed to improve support for Tamil in SuSE Linux. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。