

Immediately you'll be able to read Unicode Sinhala in these programs (You may have to restart the program.):įirefox/Mozilla (built with gtk2, FreeType2 and Pango support) To check which font file provides the Sinhala support, run: fc-list :lang=si file In both the above cases, run: fc-cache -fv If you want to make the font available to all users of the system, become root and copy the font to: /usr/share/fonts

fonts directory in your home directory: mkdir ~/.fontsĪnd copy the True/Open Type font into that directory. If you are using a modern GNU/Linux version and it has fontconfig installed, all you have to do is make a. If your distribution does not contain a Sinhala font package, then download a Unicode Sinhala font:
