Hi,

Sarves has had similar problems with Tamil display. One apparently needs to move to the newest version of tcl/tk — we haven’t done that yet in the XLE and need to do that.

@Jessi: if you give Gayan a pointer to where the source code can be downloaded, maybe he can get that done quicker than us. But we should do this soon at our end.

Miriam

On 10. Apr 2019, at 18:20, Maxwell, John maxwell@parc.com maxwell@parc.com wrote:

Hi Gayan,

This sounds like a Tcl/Tk problem rather than an XLE problem. You might try creating a Hello World program in Tcl and verify that it can display Sinhalese correctly.

Cheers,

John

From: XLE xle-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de on behalf of Gayan Kavirathne gayankavirathne.14@cse.mrt.ac.lk Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 10:28 PM To: "xle@mailman.uni-konstanz.de" xle@mailman.uni-konstanz.de, Praveen Seneviratne praveen.14@cse.mrt.ac.lk Subject: [XLE] Porting XLE for a south Asian language (Sinhala)

Hi All,

I'm trying to port XLE for Sinhala Language (Sinhalese). Up to now, I've been successful in generating the grammar parsed correctly. But letters don't appear in the tcl/tk windows. Output can be properly seen in prolog files. So, I assume that the problem is with font rendering in tcl/tk.

Is there anyone who has dealt with such situations? How can I download the source files for XLE?

Best regards! Gayan Sandaruwan Undergraduate, Computer Science & Engineering, University Of Moratuwa - Sri Lanka Mobile +94779713087

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