Saturday, January 29, 2011

Enabling Unicode support for Linux Ubuntu

0 comments
If you are a linux user you may have some problems while you opening some documents and web pages in sinhala. I you are having this problem you are in the correct place to do it properly. These all are unicode related systems. So handle with care!!!

1) First open the terminal in ubuntu or konsole in kubuntu .

2) Then type sudo bash and enter your login password to computer there when promped .

3) Then type apt-get install ttf-sinhala-lklug scim scim-gtk2-immodule im-switch scim-m17n m17n-db m17n-contrib .

4) Type "y" when promped to yes or not .

5) Next type apt-get install ttf-sinhala-lklug scim scim-gtk2-immodule im-switch scim-m17n m17n-db m17n-contrib language-pack-si-base .

6) Type "y" when promped to yes or not .

7) After all downloaded and installed type " exit " .

8) Finally type rm -f ~/.xinput.d/* ; im-switch -z all_ALL -s scim-immodule

9) Then again type " exit " and restart .

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Keep a comment if you like this.. Thank you :)