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Mohideen

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. Could you please supply some references in your Mohideen to justify the allegations there? Zoe 22:49, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts

Hi,

I see you've updated the fonts list on this page - thanks! I was wondering if you have more information on the status of Sinhala support on computers? As far as I'm aware very few rendering engines support it at the moment and any clarification would be appreciated. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 23:35, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi sukh. Unlike tamil, sinhala is not supported by arial unicode or other standard fonts. Therefore it is necessary to download a font and tweak with your settings to get it running. Most sinhala webpages [1] use a non unicode font called kottu (iso 8859-1). This is done by substituting "a" with sinhala "ayanna" and so on. Rendering is pretty okay with most browsers, but IE tends to insert blanks between letters when you try to select words. Unicode fonts are less common although the people at sinhala wikipedia and the SL government try to use them.

Rendering works fine on firefox, although the fonts appear rough. However, you can only see gibberish on the firefox/ie title pages. Yahoo search on sinhala words also works fine although google seems to have problems from time to time.

I know very little about unicode. Sorry I cannot contribute more. But if you contact one of these people at [2] and [3] they would be able to help you out. One of the problems with most unicode fonts that I've used is the lack of some important letters like "pili" (vowel derivatives added to consonants to make them sound different). Hope this helps.

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