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# Localization/Sinhalese

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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.
- ttf-freefont - 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

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