Hi folks,

Its a great pleasure to see Sinhalese language has been added to Google translator very recently. But seems Google's algo would need lots of Sinhalese vocabulary to proceed into next steps; So eventually it'll get included in Google translator, yey!. So as Sri Lankans and Sinhalese people i feel its one of our duties to contribute and fullfill the threshold asap so Google can proceed into the next steps.

So guys here's the link where you will see the webpage for translations: http://goo.gl/nJKsF0

Few notes (came to mind):

1) if you dont know the exact english meaning just "Skip" it.
2) for gods sake, please dont be crazy enough to make incorrect translations which would cause lots of trouble afterwards for lots of people involved.

(Anyways In my opinion for now, lets just forget about the "Rate" section which actually shows us the quality of translations already done by people and lets give the priority to help translate as much as we can!)



EN > SI ftw!

Thanks!
Harsha

 

After big effort recently i got installed ArchLinux on my Desktop PC. Now its up and running nicely with the KDE desktop environment.

I will describe here few stuff and problems that I faced during the Arch Setup on my real hardware, but i prefer who are interested to try it out on a Virtual machine first! 

This guide helped me alot, its a funny tutorial but all up to the points!

Video Tutorial

Troubleshooting 

few Notes encounter when I was installing Arch on real hardware/OracleVirtualBox

Internet not working after Installing the base system (after you restart)
Thats the effects of 
'systemctl enable dhcpcd@eth0.service' command

Regardless, the correct command now is:
systemctl enable dhcpcd.service

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBrbS5f8rnM

Configuring pacman

The SigLevel option in /etc/pacman.conf determines how much trust is required to install a package.

If you get some problem like:
error:

open pacman conf and edit

SigLevel = PackageRequired >> SigLevel = Never

Guide to install Sinhala Unicode Font

Download and Install lklug.ttf Sinhala Unicode font file

sudo pacman -S wget
sudo wget -P /usr/share/fonts http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/files/lklug.ttf

Then Run the following command

fc-cache -fv

And proceed to the below steps..

Enabling Sinhala 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)