Thread: [sinhala-technical] Is there a Sinhala font that ships with Mac OS X?
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From: Harshula <har...@gm...> - 2011-02-01 04:37:41
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Hi, Vinton G. Cerf noted in his keynote speech at linux.conf.au 2011 that Apple should be blamed for his slides containing outlines of squares instead of Sinhala script for localised domain names. :-) See at 11 mins 30 seconds of his talk: http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4683393/ Does anyone know if there are any plans for Mac OS X to ship a Sinhala font? I recall Nick made one for Mac OS X (http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/sinhala/). Is anyone in touch with the Apple folks? GNU/Linux and MS Windows already ship with Sinhala fonts. cya, # |
From: Gihan D. <gi...@uo...> - 2011-02-01 05:00:45
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On 01-02-2011 10:07, Harshula wrote: > Does anyone know if there are any plans for Mac OS X to ship a Sinhala > font? I recall Nick made one for Mac OS X > (http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/sinhala/). Is anyone in touch with the > Apple folks? GNU/Linux and MS Windows already ship with Sinhala fonts. > Muthu Nedumaran has made a Sinhala font for the mach, which i have seen. No idea if/when Apple will ship this or any other font. Gihan |
From: Harshula <har...@gm...> - 2011-02-06 10:29:49
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Hi Gihan, On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 10:16 +0530, Gihan Dias wrote: > On 01-02-2011 10:07, Harshula wrote: > > Does anyone know if there are any plans for Mac OS X to ship a Sinhala > > font? I recall Nick made one for Mac OS X > > (http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/sinhala/). Is anyone in touch with the > > Apple folks? GNU/Linux and MS Windows already ship with Sinhala fonts. > > > Muthu Nedumaran has made a Sinhala font for the mach, which i have seen. > No idea if/when Apple will ship this or any other font. Is there a link to the aforementioned font? cya, # |
From: Ruvan W. <ar...@uc...> - 2011-02-01 05:11:15
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as far as i know there was a commercial solution advertised sometime ago. not sure about its UNICODE conformity. ICTA has just put out a call for this (among other things). my mac still is unable to render sinhala properly though bala says he sees it perfectly with the same font (bhashitha). idea in ICTA call is to develop input method for mac together with getting UNICODE fonts to work. regards. Ruvan Weerasinghe University of Colombo School of Computing Colombo 00700, Sri Lanka. Web: http://www.ucsc.lk Phone: +94112158953; Fax: +94112587239 From: "Harshula" <har...@gm...> To: sin...@li... Cc: "Ruvan Weerasinghe" <ar...@uc...> Sent: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 10:07:19 AM Subject: Is there a Sinhala font that ships with Mac OS X? Hi, Vinton G. Cerf noted in his keynote speech at linux.conf.au 2011 that Apple should be blamed for his slides containing outlines of squares instead of Sinhala script for localised domain names. :-) See at 11 mins 30 seconds of his talk: http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4683393/ Does anyone know if there are any plans for Mac OS X to ship a Sinhala font? I recall Nick made one for Mac OS X (http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/sinhala/). Is anyone in touch with the Apple folks? GNU/Linux and MS Windows already ship with Sinhala fonts. cya, # |
From: Anuradha R. <anu...@ta...> - 2011-02-01 05:41:24
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The commercial solution is from Xenotype. Harshula is asking about out-of-the-box support for Apple, which is currently the case for [most] GNU/Linux and Windows, so users can use Sinhala without installing anything. This blog has a link to the software: http://cerno.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/mac-os-x-sinhala-language-support/ On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Ruvan Weerasinghe <ar...@uc...> wrote: > as far as i know there was a commercial solution advertised sometime ago. > not sure about its UNICODE conformity. > > ICTA has just put out a call for this (among other things). my mac still is > unable to render sinhala properly though bala says he sees it perfectly with > the same font (bhashitha). idea in ICTA call is to develop input method for > mac together with getting UNICODE fonts to work. > > regards. > > > > Ruvan Weerasinghe > University of Colombo School of Computing > Colombo 00700, > Sri Lanka. > > Web: http://www.ucsc.lk > Phone: +94112158953; Fax: +94112587239 > > ________________________________ > > From: "Harshula" <har...@gm...> > To: sin...@li... > Cc: "Ruvan Weerasinghe" <ar...@uc...> > Sent: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 10:07:19 AM > Subject: Is there a Sinhala font that ships with Mac OS X? > > Hi, > > Vinton G. Cerf noted in his keynote speech at linux.conf.au 2011 that > Apple should be blamed for his slides containing outlines of squares > instead of Sinhala script for localised domain names. :-) > > See at 11 mins 30 seconds of his talk: > http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4683393/ > > Does anyone know if there are any plans for Mac OS X to ship a Sinhala > font? I recall Nick made one for Mac OS X > (http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/sinhala/). Is anyone in touch with the > Apple folks? GNU/Linux and MS Windows already ship with Sinhala fonts. > > cya, > # > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > sinhala-technical mailing list > sin...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sinhala-technical > > |
From: Harshula <har...@gm...> - 2011-02-06 03:14:42
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Hi Ruvan, As Anuradha clarified, I'm asking whether Mac OS X will ship with a Sinhala font. Any idea how we can pursue this? When Vinton Cerf makes a joke like that, it's kind of embarrassing for Apple. cya, # On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 10:15 +0530, Ruvan Weerasinghe wrote: > as far as i know there was a commercial solution advertised sometime > ago. not sure about its UNICODE conformity. > > ICTA has just put out a call for this (among other things). my mac > still is unable to render sinhala properly though bala says he sees it > perfectly with the same font (bhashitha). idea in ICTA call is to > develop input method for mac together with getting UNICODE fonts to > work. > > regards. > > > > Ruvan Weerasinghe > University of Colombo School of Computing > Colombo 00700, > Sri Lanka. > > Web: http://www.ucsc.lk > Phone: +94112158953; Fax: +94112587239 > > > > > From: "Harshula" <har...@gm...> > To: sin...@li... > Cc: "Ruvan Weerasinghe" <ar...@uc...> > Sent: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 10:07:19 AM > Subject: Is there a Sinhala font that ships with Mac OS X? > > Hi, > > Vinton G. Cerf noted in his keynote speech at linux.conf.au 2011 that > Apple should be blamed for his slides containing outlines of squares > instead of Sinhala script for localised domain names. :-) > > See at 11 mins 30 seconds of his talk: > http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4683393/ > > Does anyone know if there are any plans for Mac OS X to ship a Sinhala > font? I recall Nick made one for Mac OS X > (http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/sinhala/). Is anyone in touch with the > Apple folks? GNU/Linux and MS Windows already ship with Sinhala fonts. > > cya, > # |
From: Anuradha R. <anu...@ta...> - 2011-02-01 05:31:06
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Hi Harshula, Microsoft made Sinhala available (first as a kit and then integrated it into Vista) when they wanted to bid for government contracts. I am not sure if Apple is also after these contracts. I don't think so, but I may be wrong. Some time back I was trying to go through a local vendor to contact the mother company of a certain niche mobile phone brand. My offer was to bring in Sinhala support into the phone platform free of charge and for them to collaborate technically. But they never got back to me, but to be fair, I never followed up strongly either, something you do very well. As for Apple, I am not sure how much influence local vendor(s) have over the development. If I am not mistaken, local vendors work with Singapore. Anuradha On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Harshula <har...@gm...> wrote: > Hi, > > Vinton G. Cerf noted in his keynote speech at linux.conf.au 2011 that > Apple should be blamed for his slides containing outlines of squares > instead of Sinhala script for localised domain names. :-) > > See at 11 mins 30 seconds of his talk: > http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4683393/ > > Does anyone know if there are any plans for Mac OS X to ship a Sinhala > font? I recall Nick made one for Mac OS X > (http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/sinhala/). Is anyone in touch with the > Apple folks? GNU/Linux and MS Windows already ship with Sinhala fonts. > > cya, > # > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > sinhala-technical mailing list > sin...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sinhala-technical > |
From: Harshula <har...@gm...> - 2011-03-04 10:36:10
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Hi, Does anyone have or know someone that has developer access to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion? Apparently it may have a Sinhala font. cya, # On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 15:37 +1100, Harshula wrote: > Hi, > > Vinton G. Cerf noted in his keynote speech at linux.conf.au 2011 that > Apple should be blamed for his slides containing outlines of squares > instead of Sinhala script for localised domain names. :-) > > See at 11 mins 30 seconds of his talk: > http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4683393/ > > Does anyone know if there are any plans for Mac OS X to ship a Sinhala > font? I recall Nick made one for Mac OS X > (http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/sinhala/). Is anyone in touch with the > Apple folks? GNU/Linux and MS Windows already ship with Sinhala fonts. > > cya, > # |
From: Harshula <har...@gm...> - 2011-09-19 07:06:31
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Hi, The latest Mac OS X (10.7 - Lion?) has a Sinhala font. So the latest GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows all ship with Sinhala script support. cya, # On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 21:35 +1100, Harshula wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have or know someone that has developer access to Mac OS X > 10.7 Lion? Apparently it may have a Sinhala font. > > cya, > # > > On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 15:37 +1100, Harshula wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Vinton G. Cerf noted in his keynote speech at linux.conf.au 2011 that > > Apple should be blamed for his slides containing outlines of squares > > instead of Sinhala script for localised domain names. :-) > > > > See at 11 mins 30 seconds of his talk: > > http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4683393/ > > > > Does anyone know if there are any plans for Mac OS X to ship a Sinhala > > font? I recall Nick made one for Mac OS X > > (http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/sinhala/). Is anyone in touch with the > > Apple folks? GNU/Linux and MS Windows already ship with Sinhala fonts. > > > > cya, > > # |