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Please visit http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:R34DAe1uGvkJ:www.fonts.lk/doc/sinhala%2520standards.pdf+yansaya&hl=en or download from the internet http://www.fonts.lk/doc/sinhala%20standards.pdf. Else download from the Akuru.org "Development of Standards for Sinhala Computing" I am Quoting a part of the text for your perusal 5.1 Conjunct letters Unicode does not encode any conjunct letters, Such letters are a shorthand for writing a pure 5.2 Yansaya and Rakaransaya A frequent critisism of Unicode is the lack of codes for the yansaya and rakaransaya. The Unicode documents fail to mention these two symbols. However, we realised that this omission was deliberate, as neither of these symbols are Sinhala letters. Above comments are made by 1st Regional Conference on ICT and E-Paradigms 24th 26th June 2004, Colombo, Sri Lanka Development of Standards for Sinhala Computing Gihan Dias and Aruni Goonetilleke ICT Agency |
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I am Quoting from a Sinhala book written by great Cumaratunge Munidasa ISBN 955-9170-42-2
What we need is a correct Matrix (Allocation Table) for all Sinhala Individual Characters |
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