On 16 Mar 2014, at 04:12, Naena Guru <[email protected]> wrote: > Dual-script Singhala means romanized Singhala that can be displayed either in > the Latin script or in the Singhala script using an Orthographic Smart Font…
What a terrible, terrible idea. You are essentially promoting giving up writing Sinhala, in favour of a slightly-bigger-than-ASCII Latin font hack. > Dual-script Singhala is the proper and complete solution on the computer for > the Singhala script used to write Singhala, Sanskrit and Pali languages. No, it isn’t. It’s a huge step backwards, unless you propose abolishing the Sinhala script entirely and just writing in Latin. > The government ministries, media and people welcomed it with enthusiasm and > relief that there is something practical for Singhala. The response in the > country was singularly positive, except for the person that filibustered the > Q&A session of the presentation that spoke about the hard work done on > Unicode Sinhala, clearly outside the subject matter of the presentation. That person understood the nature of data integrity. As does everyone who cares about the Universal Character Set. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/ _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
