AFAIK, they are going to use Sinhala in the future. Q query from someone at BBC to a friend was forwarded to me and I directed them to Siyabas and other relevant sites. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:26 AM, nidujay wrote: > Hi, > > Why doesn't BBC use unicode characters in the sinhala pages? > > The international standard ISO 10646 defines the Universal Character Set > (UCS) - i.e. all the characters and symbols used in the world. The sinhala > language/character set has also been available for some time now. In fact > there are already websites that use this character set > (http://si.wikipedia.org and http://www.google.lk) are notable examples. > > All modern operating systems now support the sinhala unicode character set. > Please see http://www.locallanguages.lk/OS_Support for more information. > > regards > Dushara > > > _______________________________________________ > Sinhala mailing list > Sinhala@linux.lk > https://secure.linux.lk/mailman/listinfo/sinhala > > -- http://www.sayura.net/anuradha/ _______________________________________________ Sinhala mailing list Sinhala@linux.lk https://secure.linux.lk/mailman/listinfo/sinhala