![]() ![]() Mainly because I have over the years converted it into a command line driven UNIX box □ Most likely I’ll have to set up a Linux machine or get some sort of virtual machine running Linux. So its either pay up for Xenotypetech or get a PC. These screen shots of Achcharu, Kottu (below), and webalochana shows why. Yet the Sinhala blog marathon of this weekend made me realise my makeshift method is no good. I thought I had got used to painfully reading SInhala like a pre-schooler due to the mangled way it displays on my mac. Which is no small amount in Sri Lankan rupees – specially for a “non professional” use. If you want to have EASILY readable Sinhala on a Mac, it means getting a 50 US Dollar Sinhala language kit from Xenotypetech. Nothing much has changed a year and a month later. The specifics of OSX Sinhala display issues have already been covered in this March 2007 post by Sanjana. Installing the Akshar Open Type font from Kamban makes it possible to get barely legible Sinhala character display. OSX has no default Sinhala language support. ![]()
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