Adding Unicode Sinhala (සිංහල) to GNU/Linux (ලිනක්ස්)

HOWTO

• Sinhala HOWTO: Enabling Unicode Sinhala in GNU/Linux

Documents

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

Source Repository

• Git Repository for interested developers

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

Official

• Sinhala Wijesekera Compatible Keyboard Layout

De Facto

• Sinhala Phonetic Static Keyboard Layout
• Sinhala Phonetic Dynamic Keyboard Layout
• Sinhala Phonetic Virtual Keyboard Layout
• Sinhala Transliteration Keyboard Layout

Other

• Sinhala QWERTY Compatible Wijesekera Keyboard Layout
• Kaputa Keyboard Layout
• Samanala Transliteration Scheme
• Sumihiri Transliteration Scheme

Keyboard Implementations

• Example usage and links to Sinhala Phonetic Static Implementation

Transliteration Schemes

De Facto

• Sinhala Transliteration Scheme for Defines

Experimental

• Sinhala to International Phonetic Alphabet Transliteration Scheme
• Sinhala to English Transliteration Scheme