![]() ![]() ![]() Sri Lanka created history in 2011 by releasing Non-Latin Country Code Top Level Domain Names (ccTLDs) “ලංකා” and “.இலங்கை” and they are now active ccTLDs for the last eight years managed by the LK Domain Registry. Theekshana R&D and the Language Technology Research Laboratory (LTRL) of University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) have been working on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Text to Speech for more than 10 years and this research output is about to be released as commercial products. Spell checkers are already developed, and grammar checkers are also on the way for Sinhala. Sinhala can be stored with any other script in parallel in a document and a list of Sinhala words can be sorted and arranged according Sinhala collation sequence like any other Latin Script, and it has become an ordinary day to day occurrence that data in Sinhala is stored in a Database Management Systems (DBMS) like data in English. Sinhala had taken a long and arduous computerisation journey, in the outcome of which it stands on its own shoulder to shoulder with English in the operations of Sinhala Script on computers. ![]() Sinhala and Tamil are categorised under complex scripts at the time Unicode technology was created to render them on computers.
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