Naena Guru <[email protected]> Naena - If you don't like Unicode, then develop your own character encoding and try to get your country to adopt it as a national standard - but please stop trying to abuse Unicode and OpenType by attempting to warp them to conform to your scheme.
You could also quite easily create an IME that accepts transliterated Sinhala typed on a QWERTY keyboard using Latin characters and converts those to proper Unicode Sinhala characters. That would *much* better than trying to use complex script rendering to get transliterated Sinhala. BTW This kind of idea is not new - about 12 years ago I messed around with using complex script rendering to display transliterated (romanized) Tibetan withTibetan glyphs (it is fairly easy to do using Graphite instead of OpenType) - however I didn't make the mistake of actually assigning some of those Tibetan glyphs to Latin code points.
