Your work has been inspirational!! bring tears of joy to my eyes :-)
And the timing of the announcement is just perfect ;-) keep up the good
work.
cheers,
Harsha.
> Hi all,
>
> Lanka Linux User Group is pleased to announce version 0.2 of Sinhala
> GNU/Linux. Highlight of this release is complete support for Sinhala
> language in the QT toolkit. Release notes are at the bottom of this
> mail.
>
> Trying out this release needs a bit more patching than 0.1, so do it
> only if you are adventurous. A live CD based on Knoppix, which will
> work out of the box, will be released in a couple of days.
>
> Download it from the usual location:
>
> http://sinhala.linux.lk/pub/0.2/
>
> Anuradha
>
> --
>
> http://www.linux.lk/~anuradha/
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
>
> Release Notes for 0.2
> =====================
>
> GTK/GNOME
> ---------
>
> GTK keyboard input was improved substantially in terms of usability,
> the most visible being the use of <F12> to switch temporally to Latin
> input. Pango patch was not changed, but was ported to more versions.
> GTK/GNOME rendering and keyboard input can be considered fairly stable
> now.
>
> QT/KDE
> ------
>
> QT has a critical bug which prevented rendering certain combinations
> of characters (e.g.: kanthoruwa) wrong. A patch is included in 0.2
> which fixes this in the QT script engine. It
> also has a patch to add surround text support to QT, and a Sinhala
> keyboard input module, which works very similar to the GTK input
> module.
>
> These three changes to QT makes its Sinhala support almost perfect.
> The bad news is that they break binary compatibility, so one has to
> recompile all the applications that depend on QT, and certain KDE
> applications don't work out of the box, although QT has been fixed.
>
> Spell Checking
> --------------
>
> An Aspell dictionary for Sinhala has been added. The word list
> (si.wl) included in this release is small, but a large one is expected
> soon.
>
> Samples
> -------
>
> A small utility (kavi) is included to format Sinhala poetry, and the
> release comes with few samples.
>
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