tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37854367732065003882011-04-21T17:05:16.458-07:00Thiwanka Manamendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15546252812288098261noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3785436773206500388.post-42663045433890495692008-01-13T20:57:00.000-08:002008-01-13T20:59:47.112-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;" >පහසුවෙන්‍ සහ ලේසියෙන්‍ සිංහල ගන්‍න.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Hi all Sri Lankan. Why use english, Now Sinhala (සිංහල) coming in to your PC. Use follwing simple instraction to enable sinhala in your PC.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">සිංහල ගන්‍න සිංහලෙන්‍ ලියන්‍න. </span><br /></div><br /><ul style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"><li><span style="font-size:130%;">For Linux Users.</span></li></ul><br /> install <a name="ENABLE-DEBIAN-AND-UBUNTU">Debian and Ubuntu Sinhala repositories<br /></a><h4 class="SECT3"><a name="AEN157"> What is available?</a></h4><h4 class="SECT3"><a name="AEN157"></a></h4><a name="ENABLE-DEBIAN-AND-UBUNTU"><br /></a><ul><li><p>LKLUG Unicode Sinhala font</p></li><li><p>SCIM transliterated input method</p><ul><li><p>Automatically sets the required environment variables in /etc/environment</p></li></ul><a name="AEN167">How to install</a></li><li><p>Add to /etc/apt/sources.list , <span style="font-weight: bold;">in ubuntu System ->Administration -> Source List</span><br /></p><ol type="a"><li><p>On Debian 4.0 (Etch)</p><table bg="" style="color: rgb(224, 224, 224);" border="1" width="90%"><tbody><tr><td><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><pre class="SCREEN">deb http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/debian/i386/etch/ ./</pre></span></td></tr></tbody></table></li><li><p>On Debian testing (Lenny)</p><table bg="" style="color: rgb(224, 224, 224);" border="1" width="90%"><tbody><tr><td><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><pre class="SCREEN">deb http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/debian/i386/lenny/ ./</pre></span></td></tr></tbody></table></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><p style="font-weight: bold;">On Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) i386</p><table bg="" style="color: rgb(224, 224, 224);" border="1" width="90%"><tbody><tr><td><pre class="SCREEN">deb http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/ubuntu/i386/gutsy/ ./</pre></td></tr></tbody></table></li><li><p>On Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) amd64</p><table bg="" style="color: rgb(224, 224, 224);" border="1" width="90%"><tbody><tr><td><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><pre class="SCREEN">deb http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/ubuntu/amd64/gutsy/ ./</pre></span></td></tr></tbody></table></li></ol></li><li><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">Update repository metadata:</p><table bg="" style="color: rgb(224, 224, 224);" border="1" width="90%"><tbody><tr><td><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><pre class="SCREEN">apt-get update</pre></span></td></tr></tbody></table></li><li><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">Install Sinhala packages:</p><table bg="" style="color: rgb(224, 224, 224);" border="1" width="90%"><tbody><tr><td><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><pre class="SCREEN">apt-get install sinhala-gnu-linux</pre></span></td></tr></tbody></table></li><li><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Upgrade relevant packages:</p><table bg border="1" width="90%" style="color:#e0e0e0;"><tbody><tr><td><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><pre class="SCREEN">apt-get upgrade</pre></span></td></tr></tbody></table></li><li><p>Logout and login again. Environment variables need to be set/updated (NO NEED TO REBOOT)</p></li></ul><br /><h4 class="SECT3"><a name="AEN189">How to test</a></h4><h4 class="SECT3"><br /></h4><ol type="1"><li><p>Visit http://si.wikipedia.org/ and see if the Sinhala letters render correctly.</p></li><li><p>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.</p></li><li><p>To test SCIM, press Control+space or Shift+Space whilst you are running a GNOME application. Then select one of the Sinhala input methods. You can see new icon with keyborad in you gnoome panel.</p></li></ol><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><br />For Windows Users ...<br /> </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mrt.ac.lk/sinhala/SinhalaXP1.0.zip"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 90px; height: 45px;" src="http://fonts.lk/images/SinhalaGanna.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Get and install sinhala pack form <a href="http://www.mrt.ac.lk/sinhala/SinhalaXP1.0.zip">fonts.lk</a></span></li></ul><br /><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;">You can download it by <a href="http://www.mrt.ac.lk/sinhala/SinhalaXP1.0.zip">click in hear.</a> use instruction come with setup</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />සිංහල ගන්‍න සිංහලෙන්‍ ලියන්‍න. </span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> Special thanks go to Lanka Linux User Group (LKLUG) and fonts.lk</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><h4 class="SECT3"><a name="AEN189"></a></h4><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3785436773206500388-4266304543389049569?l=lankalinuxblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Thiwanka Manamendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15546252812288098261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3785436773206500388.post-47017323316634791812008-01-07T20:26:00.000-08:002008-01-07T20:34:30.316-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Use open source or free software instead of your illegal software.</span></span><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3785436773206500388-4701732331663479181?l=lankalinuxblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Thiwanka Manamendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15546252812288098261noreply@blogger.com0