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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2021-09-15 21:32, Steve Langasek wrote:
> In Ubuntu, the wijesekera keyboard is provided by the ibus-m17n
> package, which I find included by default in Ubuntu 21.04 as well as
> in Ubuntu 20.04.

While ibus-m17n is present on the Ubuntu desktop ISO, it does not stay 
after the installation is completed unless you select one of a few 
certain languages in the installer. Sinhala is (currently) not one of 
the languages which makes ibus-m17n stay:

https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-settings-daemon/-/blob/ubuntu/master/debian/patches/ubuntu/keyboard-Use-ibus-sources-from-locale.patch#L22

So you typically need to:

* install the ibus-m17n package
* log out and log in again

and then:

> If I go into Settings->Region & Language, I am able to find this
> keyboard under 'Other' -> 'Sinhala'.
> 
> Is the problem that selecting wijesekera gives the wrong keymap, or
> is the problem that it has to be manually selected instead of being
> the default when choosing Sinhala as a language?  Because I cannot
> find where it was the default input method for Sinhala prior to
> Ubuntu 21.04.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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