OpenType Layout Tables: Sinhala (default, Sanskrit, Sinhala, zz01, zz02, zz03)Īdditional Information About These Font Samples Stats: Version 0.04 2003 has 588 glyphs and no kerning pairs (potha3.ttf from the 'Fonts' folder of SinhalaKitOffice 0.5.zip) Stats: Version 4.004 2004 has 296 glyphs and 1 kerning pair (FM-MalithiUW46.ttf from SinhalaKitOffice0.6.zip) Stats: Version 1.000 2004 has 306 glyphs and no kerning pairs Source: Free download from the Sri Lanka Web Community Center. Stats: Version 0.81 has 769 glyphs and 69 kerning pairs Installing the Sinhala Kit also installs DinaminaUniWeb (Sinhala font), Malithi Web (Sinhala font), Kartika (Malayalam font), and an advanced version of the Uniscribe engine (USP10.dll, after reboot). You must install the Kit to obtain this font since iskpota.ttf is not in the zip file. Source: Part of the installation of the free 'Sinhala Kit for MS Office on Windows XP' Beta (SinhalaXP0.4.zip). Stats: Version 4.1 11/15/04 has 402 glyphs and no kerning pairs Source: Part of the free download of the 'Sinhala for Windows XP Beta'. OpenType Layout Tables: Sinhala (default, zz01) Stats: Version 4.0 has 535 glyphs and no kerning pairs Source: Part of the free download of the Sinhala Kit for MS Office beta.

Although the font works I'm told that there are some missing glyphs. (din-b-3.ttf from SinhalaKitOffice0.6.zip)

The script is also used for Pali and Sanskrit in Sri Lanka. The Sinhala script is a Brahmi-derived writing system used in Sri Lanka for the Sinhala language. Some special characters are even represented with four bytes.WAZU JAPAN's Gallery of Unicode Fonts Sinhala On the other hand, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other Asian characters are represented with three bytes. European (Latin), Hebrew, and Arabic characters are represented with two bytes. For English characters, UTF-8 uses only one byte. UTF-8 Unicode encoding can support up to four bytes to represent characters. The UTF-8 encoding is used on the Web and it is the default encoding standard used in many software programs.

There are different types of Unicode encoding with UTF-8 and UTF-16 being the most common. It defines how individual character is represented in web pages or any other types of text files and documents. Unicode is a universal character encoding standard. Whereas, UTF-8 is one of the implementations of Unicode that includes more than 128,000 characters. ANSI is a Microsoft-related standard for character and it is used to encode Latin Alphabets. What is the difference between Unicode & ANSI Sinhala font?īoth ANSI and UTF-8 are encoding formats.

Sinhala script fonts