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Restart your computer (not necessary on Windows XP). In Windows, right click on your Desktop, choose Properties, go to Advanced tab, click on Effects and choose Cleartype as the method to smooth edges of screen fonts. Change Character Encoding to UTF-8 Unicode in your browser ( VIEW-->ENCODING in most browsers).
v. t. e. The Sinhala script ( Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva ), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. [3]
Sinhala is a Unicode block containing characters for the Sinhala and Pali languages of Sri Lanka, and is also used for writing Sanskrit in Sri Lanka. The Sinhala allocation is loosely based on the ISCII standard, except that Sinhala contains extra prenasalized consonant letters, leading to inconsistencies with other ISCII-Unicode script allocations.
For example, the Arial, Tahoma and Times New Roman font packages that come with Microsoft Office 2007 and later versions also support precomposed Unicode characters like ā, ḍ, ḥ, ī, ḷ, ḹ, ḻ, ṃ, ñ, ṅ, ṇ, ṛ, ṝ, ṣ, ś, ṭ and ū, glyphs for some of which are only to be found in the Latin Extended Additional Unicode block ...
Sinhala input methods are ways of writing the Sinhala language, spoken primarily in Sri Lanka, using a computer. Sinhala input methods can be broadly classified into two main groups: ones based on typewriter keyboard layouts, and ones that are meant to be typed on QWERTY keyboards using an input method , known as "Singlish".
Lanka Linux User Group (LKLUG) introduces Sinhala Unicode in Linux. The "Iskoola Pota" Unicode Sinhala font released by Microsoft. It is a Unicode font developed by Microsoft, designed to accurately represent Sinhala characters on digital platforms. Iskoola Pota is widely utilized in various digital applications, including word processing ...
Criticism of the standard Unicode character model for Tamil Unicode's encoding models for Devanagari, Tamil, Kannada, Sinhala and emoji require use of the invisible zero-width joiner and zero-width non-joiner characters. The existing Unicode character model for Tamil is, like most of Indic Unicode, an abugida-based model derived from ISCII. It ...
Multilingual support (Indic) Several pages on Wikipedia use Indic scripts to illustrate the native representation of names, places, quotes and literature. Unicode is the encoding used on Wikipedia and it contains support for a number of Indic scripts. However, before Indic scripts can be viewed or edited, support for complex text layout must be ...