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Enable & Write in Sinhala Unicode

Posted by Mayooresan | February 19, 2008 .

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There are many of my friends who study with me in university are happy with English and they don’t wanna read or write in Sinhala, over the internet. They keep on asking “how did you type in Tamil machang?”, but they’ll never make an attempt to write in Sinhala over the net.

Soon lot of people, who don’t know English will also come to computer especially for internet. In that time they should have a proper support or a proper base in their own language. Comparatively in Tamil, there are many communities working actively to accomplish these kinda tasks.

In Sinhala, I hardly see a community that work with a will. I think at least now you guys should start to work on this matter. First of all, you should be able to read and write in your own language.

In Vista, it has a built-in support for Sinhala but in Win XP you need to install an extension pack. . Don’t ignore it. Follow the link and activate the Sinhala Unicode in your computer.

http://www.siyabas.lk/sinhala_how_to_install.html

Good luck

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  1. Donald Gaminitilaka February 20, 2008 3:32 am

    Why you need additional software to see so called “SINHALA UNICODE” ?

    Do we need additional software to see Latin Script or Korean or Japanese or any other unicode registered language.

    You all are fooling the public.

    read the following from unicode consortium and understand the gravity of the problem.

    Donald Gaminitillake
    I Set the Standard

    I quote from unicode consortium
    Unicode Technical Report #2 The Sinhala proposal was written by Andy Daniels.
    Status of this document
    This document has been considered and approved by the Unicode Technical Committee for publication as a Technical Report. At the current time, the specifications in this technical report are provided as information and guidance to implementers of the Unicode Standard,

    http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr2.html

    quote
    There is a standard extant for Sinhala described in A Standard Code for
    Information Interchange in Sinhalese by V.K. Samaranayake and S.T. Nandasara
    (ISO-IEC JTC1/SCL/WG2 N 673, Oct. 1990). The coding proposed in it was found
    to be an inadequate basis for a modern, computer-based interchange code,
    though it is adequate to handle the capabilities of a Sinhala typewriter for
    representing contemporary colloquial Sinhala.
    Unquote

    Now download following and read it yourself

    http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3195.pdf

    quote from above

    ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N3195R

    Doc Type: Working Group Document
    Title: Proposal to add archaic numbers for Sinhala to the BMP of the UCS
    Source: Michael Everson
    Status: Individual Contribution
    Action: For consideration by JTC1/SC2/WG2 and UTC
    Replaces: N1473R
    Date: 2007-02-08
    This document requests twenty additional characters to be added to the UCS and contains the proposal

    Unquote

    Michael Everson will change the unicode sinhala as and he wish. ICTA has no say with these guys.

    We need not honour these changes nor accept it but change the SLSI 1134 as per my instructions
    This is the only path to save the Sinhala language.

  2. Mayooresan February 20, 2008 5:11 am

    //You all are fooling the public.//
    If I’m wrong then I’m sorry, I’m not trying to mislead the public. I’m just trying to get them to use local languages in our computers. You may be correct. I’m not into this much technical! :shock:

  3. Niro February 20, 2008 5:06 pm

    This is cool man… What if make a syndication network for all who write in sinhala wow… Awesome.. as my friend sanda (sandaru1.com) once said we have to make such a culture.. awesome…

  4. Mayooresan February 21, 2008 2:50 pm

    Yep already Tamil has such aggregators such as Thamizmanam, thenkoodu etc!

  5. Malinthe March 8, 2008 12:11 am

    There is a Sinhala Syndicator:
    http://www.sinhalablogs.com

  6. Mayooresan March 17, 2008 2:58 pm

    Thanks for the link malinthe!

  7. நிமல் - NiMaL June 7, 2008 8:55 pm

    For those who are on Firefox this extension would be handy http://sinhalakey.mozdev.org/

    This works well on Fx2 and Fx3b2. The latest version of this will be released soon with full Fx3 support.

    (But this conflicts with the Tamil Key Extension)

  8. Mayooresan June 12, 2008 8:57 pm

    @Nimal
    Thanks for the tip man!
    Never tried dat, conflict with Tamil key xtention is really bad!!!