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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Donald Gaminitilaka says
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.
Mayooresan says
//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! 😯
Niro says
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…
Mayooresan says
Yep already Tamil has such aggregators such as Thamizmanam, thenkoodu etc!
Malinthe says
There is a Sinhala Syndicator:
http://www.sinhalablogs.com
Mayooresan says
Thanks for the link malinthe!
நிமல் - NiMaL says
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)
Mayooresan says
@Nimal
Thanks for the tip man!
Never tried dat, conflict with Tamil key xtention is really bad!!!
mst silva says
i want to downlod sinhala unicod for mozilla firefox-3
charlie says
i desperately want to know how to write “believe” or “to believe” in sinhala. can anyone help?
thanks
Sourav says
Hi,
My name is Sourav Sengupta. Currently working as Technical Head – FTK India. We are a high tech desktop software company. I am recently doing a research cum project on the “Sinhalese” language. We want to make a language software in Sinhalese by which users all around the world can read and write in Sinhalese.
I would like you to help me in this project as i do not have much knowledge about the Sinhalese language. Your help would be highly welcomed! you can ask also your friends to join this programme.
Please revert soon. You can email me at: [email protected]
typist says
hi guys,check this out
Unicode enabled sinhala input method editor
typist says
hi guys,check this out
Unicode enabled sinhala input method editor
Upul Amarasinghe says
Sri lankans are very famous for their talk but not action.They talk talk talk and at the end just blame someone else and walk away.
Here I am today stuck with sinhala unicode issues (just like majority of other sinhala unicode users) trying find a patch or anything that could help me to solve this issue.
I type damn “kombuwa” and there is this funny character appears in between kombuwa and the very next letter. sometimes when I type the kombuwa after a particular letter it moves to the fornt of the letter. But when I type in MS Word I don’t experience such problems.
Even here in this site, a long time before,
the discussions of this matter seems to have being ended. (ofcourse without any action as usual)
I wonder if there is anyone in this country (or overseas) who really care about finding ansers to this kind of problems.
laksiri says
i need unicord system
laksiri says
i want to download unicord
tutorialslk says
Thanks 4 info..I downloaded sinhala unicode..
Königspiquet says
grande a redespe si alano brais con aumopimo. priamos mexpo se fingiamo son dedio mi abres osongos y empeo nceis dimpe.
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