An LKLUG Project: Adding Sinhala to GNU/Linux

HOWTOs

• Sinhala HOWTO: Enabling Sinhala in GNU/Linux

Patches

• Patches in CVS for interested developers

Presentations

• Contributing to FOSS: A Case Study [FOSS-Ed for Hackers (2006/05/22)]
• Adding Unicode සිංහල to GNU/Linux: sinhala.linux.lk [FOSSSL06 (2006/08/17)]
• සිංහල (Sinhala) Orthography: Ola Leaf to the Computer [Localisation Workshop at the 8th AOSS Symposium (2007/02/12)]

Standards and Proposals

A Unicode Sinhala Font has to be installed on your operating system in order to read the keyboard layouts and transliteration schemes. I recommend the LKLUG Unicode Sinhala font.

Keyboard Layouts

• Sinhala Wijesekera Compatible
• Sinhala ASCII Compatible Wijesekera
• Sinhala Phonetic Static
• Sinhala Phonetic Dynamic
• Kaputa

Keyboard Implementations

• Example usage and links to Sinhala Phonetic Static Implementation

Transliteration Schemes

• Sinhala to International Phonetic Alphabet
• Sinhala to English
• Samanala
• Sumihiri