How to install Sinhala Tamil Unicode Support in Windows – Step by Step Guide.
here’s how to install Sinhala & Tamil Unicode Support in Windows. before you begin make sure you meet the following.
1. Windows XP Professional – Home or Media Center Edition. (For Windows Vista Click Here)
2. Service Pack 2 Installed. (if you don’t have this, get it here and install it first.)
** If you have Service Pack 3, Download the Following File ***
3 You have log in to an Administrative Account on your computer.
4. Testing was done on a English Language Operating System and may no work in other language operating systems.
Step 1.
Go to http://www.siyabas.lk click the “Get Sinhala” Link on the top of the Page. you will get forwarded to
Sinhala Download Page.
Step 2.
Click “Windows XP” link now
Step 3.
Click on http://www.siyabas.lk/files/SinhalaTamilKit_XP.exe Download the Sinhala Tamil Unicode Kit for XP File (Make sure to save the file in your Desktop or on a place you can remember.)
Step 4.
Allow Time for the Sinhala Tamil Unicode to get downloaded.
Step 5.
Now open the file SinhalaTamilKit_XP.exe by double clicking it.
Step 6.
Windows may alert you by asking your permission to allow the file to be run, say “Run”
Step 7.
Installation of Sinhala Tamil Unicode Kit will start automatically.
Step 8.
Sinhala Tamil Unicode Setup will ask if you want to install SinhalaTamin Kit, Say “Yes”
Step 9.
Sinhala Tamil Unicode Setup will ask you to close any open programs, before you click “OK” make sure you have closed any running programs on your computer.
Step 10.
Sinhala Tamil Unicode Kit will automatically copy the files.
Step 11.
Sinhala Tamil Unicode Kit installation is done, click “OK” and after this Sinhala Enabling Pack form Microsoft will start to install Automatically.
Step 12.
You will see the Microsoft Windows XP Sinhala Enabling Pack Setup Wizard Start Automatically, Click “Next” for the Wizard to Start.
Step 13.
You will see the Microsoft Windows XP Sinhala Enabling Pack License Agreement, Click “I Agree” and Click “Next”
Step 14.
Allow Windows XP Sinhala Enabling Pack to install automatically.
Step 15.
If every thing was successful, you will see a message saying “Completing the Windows XP Sinhalese Enabling Pack Setup Wizard”, Click “Finish” this will automatically restart your computer. Please allow if to restart.
Setp 16.
One you have restart your computer, click on the “EN” icon you see on your task bar, you will see English, Tamil & Sinhala support is installed and working. To test it go to http://sinhala.kalingasblog.com if yous see Sinhala properly, then you have done it.
Step 17.
If you need to know how to type in Sinhala go to http://www.sinhalabloggers.com/sinhala-help/keyboards-typing
April 15th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Simply fabulous
April 15th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Perfect
April 15th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
කදිමයි.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
It seems this package don’t work with later SP (XP SP3)
June 6th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
yes… if you install it on SP2 and update the system to SP3 it works with out an issue… lets hope they put patch for XP SP3.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:05 am
කාලින්ග, ප්රශන්සනීය වැඩක්
August 10th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Ah, those who has Windows XP SP3, you can try out the following file.
http://www.siyabas.lk/files/SinhalaXPsp2-3.exeseem siyabas has removed the above file, here’s a copy of the file
Update: New File for WinXP SP3 from siyabas.lk
http://www.locallanguages.lk/files/SinhalaTamilKit_XP_SP3.exe
Old File for WinXP SP3
http://kalingasblog.com/sinhala_install/SinhalaXPsp2-3.exe
August 19th, 2008 at 9:54 am
කාලිංග,
Win Xp Service Pack 3හි සිංහල යුනිකොඩ් ස්ථාපනය කරගැනීමට ඉහත උපදෙස අනුව මට හැකි විය. බොහෝ තුති.
Many thanks. Above trick worked for me to get Sinhala Installed on my Win Xp SP3
August 20th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
කාලිංග අය්යේ,
අහම්බෙන් වගේ මේ පිළිතුර දැක්කෙ, අන්තිමේ SP3 වලට සිංහල දමා ගන්න හැකි උනා. Firefox වල සිංහල rendering ගැටළුවත් ඒකෙන්ම විසඳිලා පෙනෙන හැටියට. පිළිතුරට ගොඩක් තුති.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:43 am
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September 19th, 2008 at 11:16 am
@ Madhawa, i have uploaded a copy of the Win XP SP3 Sinhala Installer http://kalingasblog.com/sinhala_install/SinhalaXPsp2-3.exe
January 12th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
ස්තූතියි….
එය හොදින් ක්රියා කරනවා .මා සති කීපයක් උත්සහ කලා මෙය කිරීමට……Win Xp Service Pack 3හි සිංහල යුනිකොඩ් ස්ථාපනය කරගැනීමට ඉහත උපදෙස අනුව මට හැකි විය.
January 13th, 2009 at 9:17 am
math sinhala istall karaganna yanne. kalinga iyye etakota oyala type karanne kohomada? singlish type writer wage wadasatahan pawichchci karalada? matanam key bord eke ingri akuru tiyana tan tika wath mataka na
January 13th, 2009 at 9:55 am
@වසන්ත රත්නායක
ගොඩක් සතුටුයි, සිංහලෙන් වැඩ කරන එක ගොඩක් ලේසියි.
@deeps
ආ…
මම නමයි type කරනේ garp keyboard එක සමග keyman සොෆ්ට්වෙයර් එක (http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/downloads/keyboards/search.php?Search=l:iso:sin&Submit=1) නමුත්, විජේසේකර යතුරුපුවරුව හුරුවෙනවානම් කිසිම ගැටලුවක් නෑ.
විජේසේකර යතුරුපුවරුව, සිංහල install කරපු ගමන් පරිගනකයේ එනව.
මේක කියවන්න.
http://www.sinhalabloggers.com/sinhala-help/keyboards-typing
February 6th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
හය්යො මේ කෙහෙම්මල upset ne!
After installing this I can\t type english properly. Seems they haven\t tested it with different types of keyboards.
I have a laptop with Nordic keybord.. now I can\t type punctuations properly.
February 7th, 2009 at 9:42 am
@Anon
there is nothing wrong with it since it will not do any thing to your english keyboard layout… make sure you have not changed your keyboard… type
February 10th, 2009 at 11:21 am
ස්තුතිය් කාලින්ග!
Installer alters keyboard layout and sets English – US keyboard as default. Once I revert it back to English – DA everything is fine.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
sp3 not properly work
ta- ok but sinhala si-is not show
showing ??-unknown language
February 20th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
now i’m typing sinhala
මෙක කියවන්න
බලන්න කියවන්න බැහැ
යප්පු
how can i install
February 21st, 2009 at 6:12 pm
I couldn’t install Sinhalese Enabling Pack according to your steps, in my case step 11 to 16 not appeared please help me. I have Xp service pack 3. After installation I cant see da sinhala (Sri Lanka) in da language bar.It says “??Unknown language”
February 21st, 2009 at 7:33 pm
@Janaka & sudath
this is a known bug in Sinhala SP3 Upgraded install, if you had Window XP SP2 Sinhala and if you upgrade to SP3 and install the patch, this issue arrised, if you install sinhala for the first time on a Windows XP SP3 computer, it will work fine.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Thanks Kalinga for ur speedy reply.I think I have to reinstall windows XP.
April 16th, 2009 at 2:57 am
There is a seperate Sinhala unicode installer for XP service pack 3.
its available in siyabasa.lk
http://www.locallanguages.lk/sp3_english
or you can directly enter the following URL in to a download manager and download it directly.
http://www.locallanguages.lk/files/SinhalaTamilKit_XP_SP3.exe
April 16th, 2009 at 7:45 am
@Harindu Dharmarathne
yes its mention on top of the post
“** If you have Service Pack 3, Download the Following File ***”
but there are lot of bugs on the Sinhala Win XP SP3 patch.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Sigh non of those work,i still get the corrupted texts
April 16th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
@kasun
your OS and service pack level ?
May 5th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
who has sinhalaTool kit for Windows 2003 server
May 5th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
@ayesh
no sinhala support for windows 2003, only thing u can do is hack it a little to make it render sinhala but no input support.
January 10th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
ෙකාම්බුව ටයිප් කරන ෙකාට ඉස්සරහට (http://siyabas.lk/docs/sin-kbd-layout5.pdf හි සදහන් පරිදි invisible = alt-gr-space)ඒන බින්දුව නැති කරන්ෙන් ෙකාෙහාම ද?
January 11th, 2010 at 6:44 am
@අංජන
මේකට හේතුව සිංහල හරියට install නොවීම, XP නම් Sinhala patch එක uninstall කරන්න, ඉන්පසුව පරිගනකය restart කොට, නැවත සිංහල XP SP3 Beta patch එක දමන්න, මතක තියාගන්න සමහර විට Windows CD එක දමන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටින්න පුලුවන්, එවිට ignore කරන්න, CD එක ලබාදුන්නොත් මේ සිංහල patch එක හරියාකාරව install වන්නේ නෑ.
January 12th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
@කාලිංග
හරි වැදඩ් හරි ගියා අබයත් ඉන්ස්යටා්ල් කරාම. ඒත් සමහර වෙලාවට මතු වෙනවා. ස්තුතියි.
January 25th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
ගොඩාක් ස්තුතියි අය්යෙ.
ඔයාගෙ පෝස්ට්ස් නිසා XP SP3 එකේ සිංහල ඉන්ස්ටෝල් කරගත්තා.
තෑන්ක්ස් ලොට්…
February 13th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Hello … mage Pc eke winxp SP3 thiyenne IE8. mage IE8 wala sinhala penne naha kotu kotu tamam penne ne .. help meeee…
March 23rd, 2010 at 7:12 pm
step 11 to step 16 is not appear.plz someone help me….
January 14th, 2011 at 9:37 am
who has sinhalaTool kit for Windows 2003 server
January 14th, 2011 at 9:40 am
sinhala unicord kit not working with windows 2003 server
January 14th, 2011 at 9:59 am
how to instal sinhala unicord kit compatibility with iscolapotha font
January 14th, 2011 at 10:53 am
@Manjula
you need to download the SP3 patch and install, make sure to remove any old sinhala unicode paches before you install the new patch. make sure not to give the windows xp cd if you ask to give one. and allow the file change.
@Thila
some steps are not appearing on the new patch. dont worry about that.
view this video http://www.youtube.com/kalingasblog#p/a/u/0/INvEzdd-y6Y
@samantha
win2k3 don’t support Sinhala Unicode, there are no patches.
January 14th, 2011 at 1:54 pm
how to instal sinhala unicord kit compatibility with iscolapotha font
if not solution for above problem i change the OS Windows 2003 in to Windows Xp 2007
i need to work in sinhala with Iscolapotha font
January 14th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
@samantha
Sinhala Unicode Works on
Windows XP SP2 & SP3 works with siyabas.lk unicode patch
Winodws Vista, 7 & 2008 server works out of the box
January 14th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
my computer operating with windows sever 2003 R2 operating system so i cant work in iscolapotha fond if installed sinhala tamil unicord kit. but DL Paras and other sinhala font work in successfuly. what is the suitable sinhala tamil unucord kit compatible with Windows server 2003 R2 and Iscolapotha font.
February 22nd, 2011 at 7:12 pm
During the Installation sinhala Tamil kit, Display massage (WINDOWS COPY PROTECTION), and request to insert win XP cd
[B] Don’t insert XP CD[/B]
December 6th, 2011 at 11:03 pm
plz. tell me how can I install sinhalatamil kit on windows 7 home premium
October 25th, 2012 at 7:42 pm
how to instal sinhala unicord kit compatibility with iscolapotha fon……….?