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| Friday, 4 June 2004 |
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ICTA goes for vernacular fonts with unicode Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) with the approval of the Sri Lanka standard Sinhala character code for information interchange, SLS 1134 and implementation of standard Sinhala fonts, will interchange Sinhala in IT applications, the same way that people use English in IT today. This initiative will allow to take benefits of IT to the majority of the population in Sri Lanka to use IT in Sinhala or Tamil. If devices and connectivity were affordable for all in Sri Lanka, would there be any reason for a person conversant only in Sinhala or Tamil to use these? There has to be relevant content to keep the user interested, with local language support built in," a spokesman from ICTA said. Therefore one of the major impediments to the development and use of the Internet and ICT in Sri Lanka is the lack of local language content. The availability of a high quality, free, and standards-conformant Sinhala font would enable content providers to create Sinhala language content, and for the interchange of Sinhala characters in the communication media, he said. The only available international standard for a Sinhala character set is Unicode, which is the way of getting out of the disorder caused by the use of numerous non-standard solutions. Unicode is a method of representing all the world's character sets. |
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