Icta Iskoola Potha Sinhala Unicode
Dec 19, 2017 - Ms. Dineesha Ediriweera states that Sinhala has a wonderful structure in. In the early 2000s Microsoft had introduced a Sinhala Unicode font “Potha” which was an earlier version of the popular Microsoft font “Iskoola Potha”.
Sinhala language software for computers have been present since the late 1980s (Samanala written in C) but no standard character representation system was put in place which resulted in proprietary character representation systems and fonts. In the wake of this CINTEC (Computer and Information Technology Council of Sri Lanka) introduced Sinhala within the UNICODE (16‑bit character technology) standard. ICTA concluded the work started by CINTEC for approving and standardizing Sinhala Unicode in Sri Lanka. Contents. Timeline 1980–1989 1985.
CINTEC establishes a committee for the use of Sinhala & Tamil in Computer Technology. 1987.
'DOS WordPerfect' Reverend, who was the chief incumbent at the Springvale Buddhist temple in Melbourne, Australia asked the Lay members of the temple to produce a Monthly Newsletter for the temple in Sinhala, called 'Bodu Puwath'. A lay person named Jayantha de Silva developed two HP PCL Sinhala fonts called Lihil and an intelligent Phonetic keyboard that was able to select letters based on context, together with a printer driver and screen fonts. All this was possible because the utilities to create the keyboard and printer driver were supplied with WordPerfect. It was easy to use and was installed in many PCs owned by lay members and in the temple PC for typing articles. The program fell into disuse after Windows came online in 1990 as it did not support the WordPerfect macro keyboard. 1988.
'Super77' First trilingual word processor (DOS based) initially developed at 'Super Bits Computer Systems' katunayake and further improved up to the commercial level at IFS kandy (by Mr. Rohan Manamudali & Sampath Godamunne, under Prof. Cyril Ponnamperuma). Later it was named as 'THIBUS Trilingual Software System' (Windows based).
1989. 'WadanTharuwa' (means WordStar in Sinhala) developed by the. It was one of the first commercial Sinhala word processing software products. Gives inspiration to a new generation of developers to pursue further innovation in this field. 1990–1999 1992.
True Type Font Set KANDY jointly developed by Niranjan Meegammana and Micheal Gruber as part of project work (German Sri Lankan Co-Operation programme, 1988–1996) to use Sinhala Language in digital navigation charts. 1994.
Samanala Scheme developed. First ever Sinhala-English transliteration scheme of its kind. Signals a new era of Sinhala language solutions.
1995. Sarasavi, also developed by the University of Colombo is a new version of WadanTharuwa, the first Trilingual software of its kind.
Thibus for Windows developed by Science Land (Pvt) Ltd. The most successful commercial software. Also includes the first Sinhala/English/Tamil dictionary and word by word translation technology. Niranjan Meegammana continuing his work introduced New Kandy and several other windows fonts with Sinhala Word, one of the first Sinhala and Tamil word processors. 1996.
Sri Lanka CD, A Sinhala Encyclopedia like CD on Sri Lanka developed by Niranjan Meegammana using New Kandy fonts. 1997. Helewadana for Windows developed by Microimage (Pvt) Ltd. The most notable competition to Thibus during that time. Provides almost every functionality provided in Thibus.
Lankdeepa and Virakesari News papers published online by Niranjan Meegammana using Kandy New and Jaffna fonts. Greatly appreciated by Sri Lankan world over as Sinhala Content and communications on internet started with this initiative by ISP Ceycom Global Communications Ltd. 1998. Sinhala Word developed by Niranjan Meegamanna and becomes popular among the internet users and the font aKandyNew becomes the web standard font. The software supports both Phonetic and Wijesekara keyboards.
SLS1134/Unicode standards released by CINTEC for the first time. 2000–2009 2000. introduced by Niranjan meegammana at e fusion pvt ltd. Using Kaputa true type font which superseded Kandy New on web content and email communications opened up a new era of Sinhala content with mass content published by kaputa.com. Thibus and Helawadana release the new versions of their successful products.
The new versions have the technology built in. (Very primitive stages of transliteration.) 2002. developed by is released. The dictionary software is distributed as freeware. However the dictionary database is originally developed and owned by Thibus.
Siyabasa Sinhala Typing software developed by Dineth chathuranga is released. This one single program is compatible and works with to operating systems. 2004. Sinhala Text Box developed by, a light weight word processor which supports publishing web pages to the internet and supports almost all the existing Fonts and Keyboards. Has built in support for transliteration keyboard input in most fonts. One of the major draw backs being the lack of support for Unicode.
Wins best software awards at CSITTS (Peradeniya University) 2003 and in Digital Fusion (APIIT) 2004. Tusitha Randunuge and Niranjan Meegammana at e fusion pvt ltd, released Kaputa dot com 2004 font with improved mapping for web content.
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(LKLUG) introduces in Linux. The 'Iskoola Pota' Unicode Sinhala font released. Tusitha Randunuge and Nianjan Meegammana at released Kaputa Unicode Fonts and Keyboard drivers. 2005. Formation of Committee standardized Sinhala Keyboards bringing in developers Thibus, Helawadana and e fusion Pvt ltd, Lakehouse, Government Printer, Colombo and Moratuwa Universities, ICTA and SLS policy makers. Group a community group founded by Nirnajan Meegammana, starts popularizing use of and provides support and collaboration as a community initiative. This active group helped solving many technical issues and impact taking to masses.
the first web site developed by Nirnajan Meegammana for (ICTA) at efusion pvt ltd. Inspires the government of Sri Lanka to use in online content. Helewadana Nawayugaya is a fully compatible software solution. Takes advantage of developments of Windows and Linux and the new standard.
Also integrates its Helawadana ME for mobile devices. 2006. Kaputa Uniwriter is a real time Input System and a trainer introduced. 'Shilpa Sayura' The first e-Learning system with content for national education developed by Nirnajan Meegammana with a grant form Information and communication Technology Agency to e fusion pvt ltd. Inspires rural telecentres to use in education development.
This project received several international awards for innovation of local language for rural education development. Shilpa Sayura used a java script based online Sinhala Input Method supporting Kaputa and Wijeysekara Keyboards. Sinhala SP for Windows developed by Native Innovation (Pvt) Ltd is a more complete software solution to its predecessor Sinhala Text Box. Its developer invents a new IME technology by the name of “” which acts as a bridge between the proprietary fonts/keyboards and the new Unicode/SLS1134 standard. It has another technology aka ' which takes full advantage of Sinhala-English transliteration.
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Considered the most complete and technically sound commercial software solution. 2007. Sinhala Input Method Editor developed by SoftDevex (Pvt) Ltd that uses an exciting new input method for typing Sinhalese characters using conventional keyboard. In order to provide the instructions on installation of and provide the required software to the users, ICTA with the support of (UCSC) established www.fonts.lk. Game key code generator.
The servers and software for the site was provided free of charge by UCSC. ICTA developed 3 more websites in 2007 in order to extend the support provided by www.fonts.lk in local languages. While www.emadumilihal.lk provides information and software for using Tamil Unicode, provides information and software for using both Sinhala and Tamil Unicode. 2008. Online edition of Madura English-Sinhala Dictionary website launched. This is the first online English-Sinhala dictionary and language translator in Sri Lanka. 2009.
Realtime Singlish (Another transliteration IME) was first released on April 13 of 2009 by Madura A., latest version is 2.0 (at time of editing). The first which has a correct starting ' has been developed by Thambaru Wijesekara. 2010–present 2014. Android app of Madura English-Sinhala Dictionary launched on Google Play store. A Mac OS X dictionary for Sinhalese is made available. Assembled by Bhagya Nirmaan Silva, the dictionary was created with the re-use of work done by Buddhika Siddhisena and Language Technology Research Laboratory of University of Colombo, School of Computing in 2008. The first standards compliant Sinhala Keyboard for Apple iOS was created and published by Bhagya Nirmaan Silva.
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Marathi fonts free download. This keyboard featured a copyrighted custom layout that was based on SLS 1134:2004 but was heavily optimised for mobile keyboards. 2016. Sithara Image viewer'සිත්තරා' is first image viewer with Sinhala supported interface and was first released on March 1 of 2016 has been developed by J A Kasun Buddhika. External links. References.