Re: [sinhala] Sinhala web pages in BBC

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 <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
>
>
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