Monday, November 24, 2014

Garbage Characters for Sinhala Font


Garbage Characters for Sinhala Font

Certain elements affiliated with ruling coalition is distorting Sinhala Font in a enews page.
I do not use this site anyway but lot of my friends do.
Below is a email note I posted them.

It is not a big issue.
Kindergarten stuff.
Please go to UTUBE and watch “Rosa Natuwa” Song and Dance.
You see the same issue but song is played well in Sinhala
If the web browser does not have the Sinhala Font it reverts (assumes) Chinese characters.
Report it to Google, FireFox or Chrome Browser, what ever it is applicable.
I am trying Amazon to work on it for my writings (translate few of my books to Sinhala).

They do not understand that our alphabet has more than 50 characters.
If lot of people request (in millions) they would act on it.
In the mean time, they should drop the Sinhala Font and use English letters and use Google's Transliterate Format.
Or else they could use images with Sinhala Writings.

There was a time (I hated it) lot of dirty Sinhala words were circulated in emails and government knew it and took appropriate action.
Then the used images and that dirty habit died a natural death.

But this is more political and robust political action is mandatory.