Dead and Compose keys (was: Re: Romanized Singhala got great reception in Sri Lanka)

[Jean-François Colson]

Le 18/03/14 14:35, Jean-François Colson a écrit :
> Le 18/03/14 07:01, Naena Guru a écrit :
>> Okay, Doug.
>>
>> Type this inside the yellow text box in the following page:
>> kaaryyaalavala yanþra pañkþi
>> http://www.lovatasinhala.com/puvaruva.php
>>
>> Please tell me what sequence of Unicode Sinhala codes would produce 
>> what the text box shows.
>>
>
> OK. I'd first say I don't speak Sinhala and I've never written a word 
> in that language... until now. Therefore there might be mistakes and I 
> didn't find how to write the second syllable, ryyaa. I've replaced it 
> by ***** below.
> Here is my attempt:
> ??*****??? ?????? ?????
>
> Could an aware person tell how to type the syllable ryyaa?

Perhaps a good tutorial on the use of ZWJ/ZWNJ in Sinhala could do the job.




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>>
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>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org 
>> <mailto:doug at ewellic.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Naena Guru wrote:
>>
>>         In the case of romanized Singhala, any processing that English
>>         accepts, it accepts too. For RS, you select a font to display
>>         it in
>>         the native script because if it is mixed with English, both
>>         are using
>>         the same character space, just as when English and French are
>>         mixed.
>>
>>
>>     But English and French actually *use* the same letters, or at any
>>     rate most of them. With your approach, it is not possible to
>>     write Sinhala in the Sinhala script mixed with English or French
>>     or anything else in the Latin script. In web pages you can resort
>>     to <span style="Latin"> tricks, but this doesn't work for plain text.
>>
>>     This is what people mean when they suggest that your real goal is
>>     to abolish the Sinhala script and just write in Latin.
>>
>>
>>     --
>>     Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA
>>     http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell ­
>>
>>
>>
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