Guys at the LKLUG has done a great job regarding the sinhala support for linux. Not only they designed a new open source font, they have also coded the rendering engine and an input method. To enable sinhala support just follow the guidelines in http://sinhala.linux.lk/.
However, the default input method is a phonetic based one which is really good if you have no experience in sinhala typing. But since I’m pretty much familiar with the wijesekara keyboard, I wanted to go for it. The SCIM itself doesn’t have a wijesekara input driver. First thing I had to do was installing m17n. I just apt-get the package and it worked. Then, I re logged into linux, there were plenty of languages in SCIM. So, I choose m17n-si-wijesekara. It’s fine but there were quite a lot of errors. So, I downloaded the development version of the keyboard from http://cvs.m17n.org/viewc…..b/si-wijesekera-preedit.mim. Then I copied that file to /usr/share/m17n/ and restarting the Xorg got me the nice wijesekara keyboard.
Here are some screenshots :
#1 by Akhila on June 12th, 2009
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can you please tell how to install wijesekara in jaunty, I tried every possible way I know for days but got no success. I can view Sinhala well everywhere but unable to type, when I’m typing some letters always mess up, please help me I’m new to ubuntu
(I did as in the guides sinhala.sourceforge.net, locallanguages.lk for million times)
#2 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on June 13th, 2009
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First, make sure you have installed scim, m17n and im-switch
# sudo apt-get install scim scim-m17n m17n-db im-switch
Then, remove your xinput.d settings (files in /home/yourusername/.xinput.d/)
# rm -rf ~/.xinput.d/*
Then, switch you input method to scim
# im-switch -z all_ALL -s scim-immodule
(lines starting with # are commands)
#3 by Akhila on November 3rd, 2009
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Thank you very much!! very helpful, It is working perfectly now!!