On 17/03/2014 6:55 AM, "Jean-François Colson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 16/03/14 14:10, William_J_G Overington a écrit : >
>> >> Is the Romanized Singhala system a way to enter the characters into a computer using only a QWERTY keyboard? >> >>> It is easy to input (phonetically) using a keyboard layout slightly altered from QWERTY. >> >> How is the keyboard altered from QWERTY please? >> >> Are you publishing the font please? > > > In fact, I think he was speaking of the bare American (US) qwerty. An international version of it should do the job. > > Looking at his site http://lovatasinhala.com/ and making a copy and paste of the page contents, you see he uses 7-bit ASCII, a few Latin-1 accented vowels, and a few additional “letters” such as ð, Ð, þ, æ and µ. > He also makes a case distinction, where upper and lowercase versions of some characters produce different Sinhala characters. > Naena Guru’s aim is not to make an input method to type Sinhalese. Sinhalese keyboards layouts already exist: > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/goglobal/keyboards/kbdsn1.html > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/goglobal/keyboards/kbdsw09.html > http://kaputa.com/uniwriter/apple.gif > http://www.nongnu.org/sinhala/doc/keymaps/sinhala-keyboard_3.html > > His aim is rather to make an 8-bit font to replace that “difficult” and “expensive” Unicode compliant Sinhalese. > Creating a new set of difficulties. Andrew
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