How to type in Sinhala?

Recently I had to go through the challenge of typing a document in Sinhala. My sister needed me to do all the typing but I didn’t know where to begin. Most of all I have not typed in Sinhala. She wants me to type the document in DL- Paras font which I heard the name only on that moment.

If you go for a communication you will have to pay around Rs.50 per page. If you are extremely busy, that will be the best way. But the thing is they also take some time.

However it is better if we know how to type a simple document, in case it will be very useful.  So I thought it is better to note down my memory unless I will forget it.

Few methods you can use can be categorized as follows:

1.      Type online, then copy & paste in word.

Following sites can be used for online typing.

http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ltrl/services/feconverter/t1.html

http://sinhalaunicode.gishan.net/write

This seems to be the simplest method as we don’t need to be aware on typing Sinhala letters in key board. We can type Sinhala word as it is read in English.

2.       Type directly in word in Unicode.

Download IME from http://www.google.com/inputtools/windows/index.html

Then select SI(Sinhala) in language bar menu.

After that this will be the same thing as typing online. You can type Sinhala words as it is read in English.

3.  Type directly in word using Sinhala fonts.

If you don't have Sinhala fonts, first download and put in to Fonts folder.

For this method we need to owe the ability type Sinhala letter on key board. This is not very difficult. Initially you will feel this is somewhat hard. But if you continue for just half an hour you will be familiar with keys.

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