hi, I am Jinesh working along with Swathantra Malayalam Computing(<a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc">http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc</a>). I prepared some enhancements to the to the 'in' layout file for indic languages. The enhacements were for malayalam and the patches were submitted to the freedesktop bugzilla on 14-9-2007. It can be found here, <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12426">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12426</a> I am adding a brief summery of my enhancements along with. I added two basic enhancements to the in file, 1. Fixing bugs with current mal variant for Malayalam by adding ZWNJ and ZWSP which will help to avoid forming of some conjuncts which will make meaning differences among word if not used and hence crucial in Malayalam. 2. Added a new variant Lalitha for Malayalam, which is similar to bolnagri for Devanagari. It is mapping Malayalam letters to similar sounded English letters using a four layer layout. The mapping also ensures all special symbols to be not disturbed and uses only spaces of the letters. Hope the further actions on the submitted patches will be taken as soon as possible for the benefit of the whole group of malayalees. cheers Jinesh K J -- My Feelings,Expressions- <a href="http://logbookofanobserver.blogspot.com"> http://logbookofanobserver.blogspot.com</a> Eliminate DRM-<a href="http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign">http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign</a>