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  Sinhala package repository for Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty)

  Posted: May 19th, 2007, 1:15pm BST by harshula

  Tags:  News   [edit]

  Sinhala packages for Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty) and installation instructions
  are available on sinhala.sourceforge.net.

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  Sinhala package repository for Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy)

  Posted: November 6th, 2006, 2:24pm GMT by harshula

  Tags:  News   [edit]

  What is available?

  • LKLUG Unicode Sinhala font
  • libicu (renderer used by Open Office) with partial Sinhala support
  • SCIM transliterated input method
  • Automatically set the required environment variables in /etc/environment

  How to install

  1. Add to /etc/apt/sources.list

     deb http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/ubuntu/i386/edgy/ ./

  2. Update repository metadata:
     

     apt-get update

  3. Install Sinhala packages:
     

     apt-get install sinhala-gnu-linux

  4. Upgrade libicu package:
     

     apt-get upgrade

  5. Logout and login again. Environment variables need to be
     set/updated (NO NEED TO REBOOT)

  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 SCIM, press Control-space whilst you are running a Gnome application. Then select one of the Sinhala input methods.

  NOTE:

  Repositories are only provided for the most recent version of Ubuntu because we need to encourage users to test the most recent version. If you have any problems, questions or suggestions, please send an email to the appropriate mailing list.

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  Sinhala package repository for Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper)

  Posted: August 16th, 2006, 5:07am BST by harshula

  Tags:  News   [edit]

  What is available?

  • Updated LKLUG Unicode Sinhala font
  • libicu (renderer used by Open Office) with partial Sinhala support
  • SCIM transliterated input method
  • Enable Pango in firefox

  How to install

  1. Add to /etc/apt/sources.list
     deb http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/debian/i386/dapper/ ./
  2. Update repository metadata:
     apt-get update
  3. Install Sinhala packages:
     apt-get install sinhala-gnu-linux
  4. Upgrade libicu package:
     

     read more

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  Sinhala CVS moved to Sourceforge

  Posted: August 8th, 2006, 3:01am BST by harshula

  Tags:  News   [edit]

  The 'sinhala' CVS module on the LKLUG webserver, containing patches and source code for adding Sinhala support to GNU/Linux, has officially been moved to Sourceforge. You can access the Sourceforge Sinhala project's CVS at:

  [sourceforge.net]

  NOTE: Eventually, the 'sinhala' CVS module on the LKLUG webserver will not be publicly accessible.

  Please use the 'sinhala' CVS module on Sourceforge from now on. You can find the Sourceforge Sinhala project page at:

  read more

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  Enabling Pango in Firefox (to Enable Sinhala)

  Posted: July 11th, 2006, 1:20am BST by harshula

  Tags:    [edit]

  http://www.nongnu.org/sinhala/doc/howto/sinhala-howto.html#DEV-FIREFOX-MOZILLA

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  Google adds support for Unicode Sinhala searching

  Posted: June 1st, 2006, 5:15pm BST by harshula

  Tags:    [edit]

  Go and try using Unicode Sinhala to do a search in google ...

  e.g. සිංහල linux

  Search Result

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  Red Hat to include LKLUG Sinhala true type font

  Posted: May 29th, 2006, 3:02pm BST by harshula

  Tags:    [edit]

  Red Hat is going to ship the LKLUG Sinhala true type font in the next version of their distributions.

  The LKLUG Sinhala true type font can be downloaded from:

  [sinhala.sourceforge.net]

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  Red Hat adds partial Sinhala support patch to ICU RPMs (Fedora Core Development)

  Posted: May 20th, 2006, 8:45pm BST by harshula

  Tags:    [edit]

  My partial Sinhala support patch to ICU 3.4 (used by Open Office 2):

  [cvs.savannah.nongnu.org]

  has been added by Red Hat to recently released ICU RPM libraries. They can be downloaded from:
  [download.fedora.redhat.com]

  From the Redhat mail archive:

  read more

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  sinhala.linux.lk using Drupal

  Posted: May 3rd, 2006, 7:55pm BST by harshula

  Tags:    [edit]

  We are finally updating the sinhala.linux.lk website. Drupal is being deployed to manage the content.

  So far I have found it quite intuitive, needed to first understand the menu and navigation system and then the content type.

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  The initial Sinhala GNU/Linux explosion

  Posted: August 27th, 2003, 7:53pm BST by harshula

  Tags:    [edit]

  The LKLUG members mailing list exploded as the discussion turned to Sinhala language support in GNU/Linux.