Going Sinhala || ඔන්න මමත් සිංහලන්
Ah, Yesterday night I dreaded the complete destruction of my beloved 'bloggie' while I was trying to get my CMS to work with Sinhala. Apparently changing a charset of the CMS but not the database, messes stuff up.
Anyway, I wanted to get write සිංහල for some time, but there was something stopping me, most of my friends, especially non uni friends didn't have sinhala unicode installed. And most of them had no idea how to do it. :) Yeah, I have 'technically disadvantaged' friends. For prove the fact, let me just quote a telephone convo I had with a friend, who called me in the middle of the night while trying to register for some website.
- Friend: මචන්, this thing says, type your email address and press continue, what do I do.
- Me: ah, you have to type in your email address and press continue.
- Friend: Great!, it's working
That is a true story, lol. So, I had to use something little more than unicode to get Sinhala working. It's a very simple and straightforward javascript based solution.
දැන් ඉතින් මට තිෙයන්ෙන් පටපට ගාලා Unicode එකකින් සිංහල ටික ලියා ගන්න විතරයි. ඉතුරු හරිය එලකිරි වෙග් වැඩ කරනවා. හප්පා, ඉතින් සිංහල දාගත්තා වෙග් ෙනෙවයි දැන් ඉතින් හිතට එන හැම මළ විකාරයක්ම ලියන්න ෙවලා තිෙයයිද දන්ෙන් නැහැ.
ේම මම කරන පොඩි ටෙස්ට් එකක්
මෙයට පසුව තවත් කොටසක් එක් කර ඇත
