It will be a complete different keyboard layout. It means Sinhala ‘අ'(3461) has a unique value and English ‘A’ (65) has its own and any character in any language has its own value. The difference between a unicode font and a normal font is unicode font have a unique value for each character in each language. The second one is the one I am lacking with my university and office work but I need to somehow find some time to develop at least one nice sinhala unicode font.Īs you might already know there are hundreds of sinhala fonts but only few unicode ones. First one is you gotta love your language and secondly you should have time. You should have two things to develop a Sinhala Unicode font.

And also I will add a good post on how to develop sinhala unicode fonts by the end of training sessions in next few weeks. At the end of first day, I have got a real interest in coming up with a sinhala unicode font with next few weeks. Gihan Dias, Harsha Wijeywardana, Wini Hettigoda were helped us on this event. The first day was really wonderful and sessions were done by great people who have worked hard on this Sinhala Unicode concepts and who have been really working hard on Sinhala Localizations. I was fortuante to be there to learn the best practices for developing unicode fonts in Sinhala. So the hazard of sending the font file with the document and installing that before viewing won’t be there.īy pasting our text in one will automatically produce another.I have got a great opportunity to attend a series of traning sessions on Font Development at UCSC which was organized by ICTA. TanGlish (Phonetic) transliterated -> Tamil UnicodeĪt the same time you might have a lot of old Tamil documents which are in non Unicode fonts (like Bamini.) and as all the computers around the globe now support Unicode, you might feel it will be easy and very much convenient if you have them in Unicode as well. 'vaNakkam' in English u will get ' வணக்கம்' in Tamil. Imagine learning and practising different keyboards just to type one letter.! It sucks.!Įven if we learnt, if we didn’t practice it often it just goes way and the next time we are back to square one. Most importantly we rarely get a need to type Tamil or Sinhalese even that’s our mother tongue.

Varies keyboards, different lay outs and so many ways to handle languages,

Sinhala unicode to font converter