Comments on: Sinhala Unicode and Browser/OS support http://roshan.info/blog/2007/11/24/sinhala-unicode-and-browseros-support/ Roshan's online musings Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:27:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: nickshanks http://roshan.info/blog/2007/11/24/sinhala-unicode-and-browseros-support/#comment-31 nickshanks Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:41:53 +0000 http://roshan.info/blog/2007/11/24/sinhala-unicode-and-browseros-support/#comment-31 Hi there. Since Firefox 3 is now in Sinhala, I thought it was time to port a Windows OpenType font to the Mac, but I am not sure which one to choose. I looked for opinions on which fonts were nice for native speakers (I am English) and could only find yours blog :-) The Mac has a different font rendering engine from Windows, so the fonts look different (thicker/thinner strokes in places, different kerning and leading. I have provided the same text for you to compare against here: http://web.nickshanks.com/typography/sinhala/ Please ignore the fact that the characters are in the wrong order and vowels are generally broken, as that is what I intend to fix once I've chosen a font to work on. Also, do you know what the redistribution licenses are for these? Hi there. Since Firefox 3 is now in Sinhala, I thought it was time to port a Windows OpenType font to the Mac, but I am not sure which one to choose. I looked for opinions on which fonts were nice for native speakers (I am English) and could only find yours blog :-)

The Mac has a different font rendering engine from Windows, so the fonts look different (thicker/thinner strokes in places, different kerning and leading.

I have provided the same text for you to compare against here: http://web.nickshanks.com/typography/sinhala/

Please ignore the fact that the characters are in the wrong order and vowels are generally broken, as that is what I intend to fix once I’ve chosen a font to work on.

Also, do you know what the redistribution licenses are for these?

]]> By: max http://roshan.info/blog/2007/11/24/sinhala-unicode-and-browseros-support/#comment-26 max Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:27:42 +0000 http://roshan.info/blog/2007/11/24/sinhala-unicode-and-browseros-support/#comment-26 What a nice alphabet! How many letters does it have? (assuming they're letters rather than ideograms) What a nice alphabet! How many letters does it have? (assuming they’re letters rather than ideograms)

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