Localization/Indic

All Indic

The following packages provide fonts for a variety of Indic scripts:

ttf-freebanglafont ^AUR - Font for Bangla
ttf-indic-otf - Indic OpenType Fonts collection (containing ttf-freebanglafont), provides the character U+0CA0 "ಠ"
lohit-fonts ^AUR - Indic TrueType fonts from Fedora Project (containing Oriya Fonts and more)
ttf-devanagarifonts ^AUR - Devanagari TrueType fonts (contains 283 fonts)
ttf-gurmukhi-fonts_sikhnet ^AUR - TrueType Gurmukhi fonts (gurbaniwebthick,prabhki)
ttf-gurmukhi_punjabi ^AUR - TTF Gurmukhi / Punjabi (contains 252 fonts)
ttf-gujrati-fonts ^AUR - TTF Gujarati fonts (Avantika,Gopika,Shree768)
ttf-kannada-font ^AUR - Kannada, the language of Karnataka state in India
ttf-lklug ^AUR - Sinhala Unicode font
ttf-tamil ^AUR - Tamil Unicode fonts
ttf-urdufonts ^AUR - Urdu fonts (Jameel Noori Nastaleeq (+kasheeda), Nafees Web Naskh, PDMS Saleem Quran Font) and font configuration to set Jameel Noori Nastaleeq as default font for Urdu
ttf-malayalam-fonts-meta ^AUR - Meta package providing all Malayalam Unicode Fonts released by Swathanthra Malayalam Computing packaged from upstream releases.

Note Some applications like Firefox and desktop environments will use ttf-font (ttf-dejavu , ttf-liberation , ttf-bitstream-vera , ttf-droid , gnu-free-fonts , noto-fonts , ttf-croscore , ttf-ibm-plex , etc.) by default. The gnu-free-font package does not have full support for Indic characters alignment. Thus, consider using noto-fonts over ttf-dejavu or gnu-free-fonts as a ttf-font source.

Setting up the locale with the instructions from the dedicated page will ensure that applications use appropriate localization when available.

This section describes how to get Sinhalese Unicode support and Sinhalese Unicode input to work using IBus (sayura-ibus) or scim (sayura-scim).

For Sinhala support, you can install any of these fonts:

Download https://sinhala.sourceforge.net/files/lklug.ttf ^{[dead link 2025年08月15日—HTTP 404]} and place it in /usr/share/fonts.

Then Run the following command

fc-cache -fv

And proceed to the below steps..

Edit /etc/locale.gen. Uncomment following line

si_LK UTF-8

Run following program

locale-gen

Immediately you will be able to read Sinhala Unicode in your programs (If not You may need to restart the relavent programs. eg: Firefox)