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Default Re: How to use Devanagari on openSUSE 11.1?

Henk, thanks for the post. Sorry, I was looking for "Devanagari" and "Hindi" fonts in the repositories, didn't occur to me to try "Indic".
I've installed the font set, and the Devanagari display works fine now (also in FF and Konqueror).

I've activated Hindi input in SCIM, but apparently there is only one IM (hi-itrans), which I don't like that much.
Any idea what kind of SCIM/SKIM modules I'd have to install in order to get others (such as Remington, phonetic, or inscript -- they should be available somehow, I've seen them mentioned, see e.g. Post #2 in this Ubuntu thread: Sanskrit input (Devanagari and transliteration) - Ubuntu Forums).

Currently, I've installed the following SCIM modules:
Code:
S | Name            | Type    | Version               | Arch | Repository       
--+-----------------+---------+-----------------------+------+------------------
i | mlterm-scim     | package | 2.9.3.20071112-134.59 | i586 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
i | scim            | package | 1.4.7-166.1           | i586 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
i | scim-anthy      | package | 1.2.4-88.132          | i586 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
i | scim-bridge     | package | 0.4.15-13.3           | i586 | (System Packages)
i | scim-bridge-gtk | package | 0.4.15-13.3           | i586 | (System Packages)
i | scim-bridge-qt  | package | 0.4.15-13.3           | i586 | (System Packages)
i | scim-canna      | package | 1.0.0-129.144         | i586 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
i | scim-input-pad  | package | 0.1.1-163.142         | i586 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
i | scim-m17n       | package | 0.2.2-94.157          | i586 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
i | scim-qtimm      | package | 0.9.4-269.33          | i586 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
i | scim-skk        | package | 0.5.2-156.158         | i586 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
i | scim-tomoe      | package | 0.6.0-1.58            | i586 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
i | scim-uim        | package | 0.2.0-54.197          | i586 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
i | skim            | package | 1.4.5-259.10          | i586 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
i | skim-scim-anthy | package | 1.2.2-1.147           | i586 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
i | skim-scim-canna | package | 1.0.0-1.146           | i586 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
i | skim-scim-skk   | package | 0.5.2.1-50.146        | i586 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
PS:
I've seen references to a package "m17n-db-hindi". How can I get this for openSUSE?

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