https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83819
--- Comment #5 from JC Ahangama <[email protected]> --- Normal Sinhala? This is by far nearest to normal Singhala. Some more ligatures are needed. (Modern Singhala is called Mishra Singhala. It mixes in Sanskrit into Singhala). It is romanized Singhala, somewhat like Icelandic, displayed using a smart font containing substitution tables that implement Singhala and Sanskrit orthography. This is what comes closest to the way Singhala has been written for a long time. I use Rev. Fr. Theodore G. Perera's grammar book in constructing the orthography. (https://openlibrary.org/books/OL21020M/Sim%CC%A3hala_bha%CC%84s%CC%A3a%CC%84va). That book has been out of print since 1950s. Most Buddhist temples have it. There is a deviation between written Singhala and printed Singhala because of limitations in the printing industry and the typewriter. Unicode Sinhala completely ignores the grammar and is damaging common understanding of the writing tradition. (The writing system is part of the grammar). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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