Comments on Anuradha's Diary: Why Native Language is Important for Web

Nishadha: sorry I didn't know it was yoru blog pos...

2008-04-21T20:44:00.000+05:30

Nishadha: sorry I didn't know it was yoru blog post.

I haven't used Windows for a decade, so I'm afraid I can't comment much about your suggestions... ;-) My involvement was with enabling Sinhala on the GNU/Linux platform.

AFAIK, the Windows pack adds Sinhala rendering support to Uniscribe. It has support for all types of languages and I don't think it's possible to "unload" them.

But if you are talking about the system tray icons, yes, it would be nice to remove them when necessary. I don't know why they are needed anyways, because Uniscribe/Windows supports a great many more languages and they don't have such icons.

I also agree that the package can be divided into Sinhala and Tamil components, or a selection menu in the installation.

This blog post has a nice summary of available keyboard input methods.

They are in the blog post 1. It starts with window...

2008-04-21T20:12:00.000+05:30

They are in the blog post
1. It starts with windows , no option to remove it
2. No way of installing only Sinhala or only Tamil fonts
3. Sinhala one don't give a layout of the keyboard

Nishadha, where have you posted your suggestions?

2008-04-21T19:56:00.000+05:30

Nishadha, where have you posted your suggestions?

Very true mate , And looks like the Sinhala blog m...

2008-04-21T19:39:00.000+05:30

Very true mate , And looks like the Sinhala blog marathon was a success as well , if you are anyway connected to development of the unicode software consider my suggestions , a simple user friendly tweak can go a long way in a software becoming popular.