Localization/Sinhalese
This article describes how to get Sinhalese Unicode support and Sinhalese Unicode input to work using IBus (sayura-ibus) or scim (sayura-scim).
Fonts
For Sinhala support, you can install any of these fonts:
- noto-fonts - Noto Sans Sinhala, a sans serif font.
- gnu-free-fonts - FreeSerif, a serif font.
- ttf-lklugAUR - LKLUG, a serif font.
Guide to install Sinhala Unicode Font
Download http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/files/lklug.ttf and place it in /usr/share/fonts
.
Then Run the following command
fc-cache -fv
And proceed to the below steps..
Locale
Edit /etc/locale.gen. Uncomment following line
si_LK UTF-8
Run following program
locale-gen
Immediately you'll be able to read Sinhala Unicode in your programs (If not You may need to restart the relavent programs. eg: Firefox)
Input methods
The only packaged input method for Sinhalese is fcitx-sayura for Fcitx.
While there are also ibus-sayura and scim-sayura, they are no longer in the AUR (albeit they can still be found in the AUR archive).
See also
- sinhala linux - Official Homepage
- sayura-scim - Official Homepage
- LKLUG - Lanka Linux User Group (Sinhala Linux Mailing List)
- Sinhala Unicode Group (සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් සමූහය)
- Enabling Unicode Sinhala in GNU/Linux HOWTO