Adding Unicode Sinhala (සිංහල) to GNU/Linux (ලිනක්ස්)

This project began in 2003 on a lug.lk mailing list.

Enabling Unicode Sinhala in GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu)

What is available?

How to install

Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) and Above (may work on older versions)

Fedora 10 (Cambridge) and Above (may work on older versions)

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) and Above (may work on older versions)

How to test

  1. Visit si.wikipedia.org and see if the Sinhala letters render correctly.

  2. Copy and paste some of the content from Sinhala Wikipedia to Open Office Writer. Then highlight the Sinhala text and choose the LKLUG font to display them.

  3. To test typing, press Control-space whilst you are running a GNOME application. Then select one of the Sinhala input methods.

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