[LovataSinhala.com]

It's morning in Lanka with Dual-script Sinhala!

  Fully grammar compliant, standards neutral Dual-script is the only uncompromised solution for Sinhala

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This web site is about Dual-script Sinhala. It is a solution for Sinhala on the Single-byte Character Space (SBCS), which is where English resides.

We wrote pages on this web site using some late breaking standards. As such, some browsers, (particularly Internet Explorer) need updates to support them. We tested our pages to find which popular browsers could fully support what we did. Mozilla Firefox supports them fully and Apple Safari is more accurate, but lacks one non-critical function.

These standards have to do with font handling, CSS3, javaScript and less critically, SVG. We say humbly that the Sinhala font and the techniques we use here are 'bleeding edge' technology. Different software applications are at different stages in implementing them. The IT industry is at a consensus on their implementation. Ultimate support by all applications for Dual-script Sinhala is inevitable and imminent.

Both current versions of Microsoft's operating systems, Windows Vista and Windows 7 natively support SBCS Sinhala. Windows XP operatiing system shows SBCS Sinhala if Support for 'complex' scripts is enabled. It could be found under Languages as a check (tick) mark against the words 'Install files for complex script...'. This makes it possible to type SBCS Sinhala inside Windows Notepad.

On the applications side, Microsoft Office 2010 has entered the supporting column. Adobe has been there since 2003, and Mozilla Foundation since 2006. In reality, all programs woud have support for SBCS Sinhala as all of them update to support OpenType fonts, the single current standard for fonts.

Our time and resources are truly overstretched as we are not paid for any work we have done. Therefore, we cannot test every possible operating system and browser available out there to determine which ones have arrived there. As of June, 2010, the following browsers tested successfully. You can use the latest version of any of them to view our Sinhala pages:

You need only a good browser to read these pages in the Sinhala script -- no font downloads, no localizing, in other words, no hassle. Why it is important that you read this web site is because we demonstrate that Sinhala does not need anything other than orthographic fonts for a first class presence on the computer. It could be typed as easily as a Western European language using a keyboard layout that is only slightly different from the familiar English keyboard.

Dual-script Sinhala is based on the Single-byte Character Space (SBCS), which was grandfathered into Unicode. It never degrades into garbage. In the absence of a Dual-script Sinhala font, it gracefully falls back to regular Latin letters provided by the Last Resort font of the computer

We invite your feedback so that we make this system even better for Sinhala users. We promise that it is as easy as English to use and soon would we as pervasive as English in its presence as OpenType gets fully supported - an inevitability.

Thank you, and come back with a better browser!