The objective of this article is to give an introduction to Unicode while paying attention to SLS 1134 3 rd revision which provides the standard for input of Sinhala using Wijesekera Keyboard. All these are great achievements for a nation which are not known by ordinary public using Sinhala on Computers and this was not also possible without Unicode. Also it was last year that I co-chaired ICANN Sinhala Generation Panel of ICANN to release rules for Top Level Domains in Sinhala.
Sri Lanka created history in 2011 by releasing Non-Latin Country Code Top Level Domain Names (ccTLDs) “.ලංකා” and “.இலங்கை” and they are now active ccTLDs for the last eight years managed by LK Domain Registry. Theekshana R & D and Language Technology Research Laboratory (LTRL) of University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) have been working on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Text to Speech for more than ten years and this research output is about to be released as commercial products. Spell checkers are already developed and grammar checkers are on the way for Sinhala.
Sinhala can be stored with any other script in parallel in a document and a list of Sinhala words is sorted and arranged according Sinhala collation sequence like any other Latin Script and it has become an ordinary day to day occurrence that Sinhala Data is stored in a Database Management Systems (DBMS) like data in English. Sinhala had taken a long and arduous computerization journey as an outcome, Sinhala stands on its own shoulder to shoulder with English in the operations of Sinhala Script on computers. Sinhala and Tamil are categorized under complex scripts at the time when technology was created to render them on computers.
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