I created a DB in MySQL with latin collation and when I tried to save some Unicode content it go saved as “???” into the DB. Took me a while to figure out the issue. When such problem occures you need to change the collation to UTF-8 as shown in the image below. (navigate to […]
Sinhala Google Transliterate Now Available
On several posts I wrote about Google Transliteration. First they introduced it to Hindi then later other Indian languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada also supported. Few months later they started to support more scripts such as Arab, Hebrew etc. Today I found something interesting. Yeah now Google Transliterate supports Sinhalese too. Basically […]
Letter by a Lankan Tamil for Tamils
Dear friends, Every one is talking and celebrating the victory of Armed forces. As far as I see most of the Tamils are inside house and keeping themselves quite. Also I can see, here and there people are collecting foods and medicines for the IDPs. I can frankly say most of the Tamils are still […]
It’s Tamil New Year NOT HINDU New Year
This is New Year season and each and every one of us are wishing each other for the upcoming new year. April 14 is New Year to both Tamil and Sinhalese. I see many people are wishing Happy Sinhala and Hindu New Year. This is not Hindu New year. In the other hand, can you […]
BBC College of Journalism in Tamil & Sinhala
College of Journalism program is launched by BBC in Sinhala and Tamil. They’ve already launched this program in many languages including Russian, English, French, and Arabic etc. Also BBC says “This is just the first step, we would like to see these pages grow and become a more detailed introduction to the language of Journalism.” […]
Colombo wata – Sri Lankan Game
It’s so nice to see finally Sri Lankans have taken initiations to make localized games for Sri Lankan market. First such game I saw is, Operation Thopigala where Army soldiers is getting into LTTE base in Thopigala and confront them in commando style. Later I found there was a game release followed by success full […]
Enable & Write in Sinhala Unicode
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 […]
On Screen Keyboard for Tamil and Sinhala from Google
How many of you know that even if you don’t know the keyboard layout for Tamil or Sinhalese still you can type in Sinhalese or Tamil. Google has developed an on-screen keyboard where you can click and type. Using this gadget you can search the internet on Google. Amazing isn’t it. Then why are you […]
Harry Potter in Sinhala???
Image via Wikipedia Today I was reading Wikipedia and I found that they have mentioned that translation of Harry Potter into Sinhalese is unofficial, but I found that book was available to buy over sarasavi.com. I’m just curious to know whether anyone know about this book(ISBN 9555732866). Also some trivia says Tamil translations are expected […]