These fonts are compatible with most distributions of Linux running Gnome or KDE. Gihan Dias (ICTA, Sri Lanka) and Anura Tissera (The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd.) have provided invaluable assistance and advice in the creation of this page. Visit Penn State's South Asian Computing Information pages for additonal Unicode support. The statistics and other font details appearing on this page have been used with their permission. The content and design of this page rely largely Alan Wood's Unicode Fonts and WAZU JAPAN's Gallery of Unicode Fonts these sites are excellent and up-to-date resources to find fonts, text editors, browsers, and other Unicode resources.
[back to top Additional Resources and Credits OSX currently does not offer Sinhala as a part of its international language support however, a Unicode Sinhala Language Kit may be purchased from XenoType Technologies. While OS X also recognizes OpenType layout tables, it uses a different rendering engine (ATSUI), and these fonts are written for Microsoft's engine (called Uniscribe). They are unsuitable for use with Macintosh computers, because they make use of OpenType technology, developed jointly by Microsoft and Adobe, for displaying vowel signs ( matras) and ligatures appropriately. The fonts recommended on this page have been tested for functionality on PCs running Windows XP/2000/2003/NT.
Once this kit is installed, the Sinhala keyboard layouts may be accessed through Control Panel > System > Languages. However, a built-in Sinhala keyboard layout is installed with the beta version of the Sinhala Language Kit, available for download from the website. Windows XP Keyboard Layout: Currently there is no native keyboard support for Sinhala on Windows systems.Input Software and Keyboard Layoutsįor typing in Sinhala on Windows platforms, the SALRC recommends the following options: Also packaged as a part of the beta version of the Sinhala Kit for Windows XP.
Free download from the website (ICT Agency of Sri Lanka).
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