[Freefont-bugs] Sinhala engine for Uniscribe

[sinhala]

Hi list members,

I am forwarding something that might interest you on the list

I do not fully understand this myself.
Perhaps someone else will understand this better.
and would like to explain it a bit.

A number of the Sinhala letters will have to be placed in the private area 
so I presume that is what the driver is for.

We use a special keyboard layout for typing sinhala (Wijayasekera keyboard)
You find a layout of the keyboard layout at
http://metta.lk/fonts/
when you download the fonts it should also have a keyboard layout..


regards
Mettavihari

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Subject: Re : Sinhala engine for Uniscribe
To: address@hidden
From: address@hidden
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:08:14 +0600


Hi Paul,

I saw the following message you have posted to the VOLT message board,
> The Sri Lanka government has not produced a standard for a Unicode based
keyboard layout. That is something that can be done with a third party
tool, like Keyman.
> I am still working on finalizing the Sinhala engine. If you are
interested in beta testing this, please mail me directly.

I am very interested in a unicode font for windows. I am presently working
on a project for www.metta.lk/tipitaka on voluntary basis. My goal is to
convert all the Tipitaka (fundamental scriptural canon of Buddhism ) ASCII
HTML documents to Unicode XML.

I am not sure what the uniscribe engine will do, but if it has a unicode
font I'll be more than happy to test it for you.

Thank you for your interest in the Sinhala language.
please let me know if I can be useful.

best regards,
Harsha.


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