1. ICTA Workshop on Unicode Publishing for Sinhala and Tamil
Shan

2. Agenda Introduction (ICTA, Consultant)
Session 1 (9am 10:30 11:00 12:30)
Session 2 (1:30 03:00 3: :30)

4. Over 17 years Experience in Local Language
Keyboard Drivers (Mac, Windows )
Keyboard Apps (Android, iOS)
Fonts
Font Rules
Rendering Engine
Converters (Non-Unicode to unicode)
Spell Checker (Pagemaker, Word)
Unicode Sequence Checker
More than 14 languages

5. Session 1 Font , Typeface Font Family, Style
Unicode Font Vs Non-Unicode Font
Keyboard Driver
Keyboard Layout
Keying-in Sequence
Font Rules
Rendering Engine
Font Tools - FontLab, Fontographer, RoboFont , FontForge
MS-Volt
Sinhala/Tamil Unicode support
Sinhala/Tamil publishing
Publishing Software - Adobe, Quark XPress
Unicode support in Publishing Software
Issues
Solution to Sinhala/Tamil Unicode Publishing
Demo

6. EXCERCISE-1 1. Open Microsoft Word
2. Select a Non-Unicode Sinhala Font (e.g .Abhaya Font)
3. Press J - what do you see ?
4. Type a sequence of Characters
5. Select the character and change the font to Arial
6. You see all English characters
Issues
1.Keyboard Layout
2.Keyboard Driver
3.Keying Sequence

7. EXCERCISE-2 1. Open Microsoft Word
2. Select a Unicode Sinhala Font (e.g. IskolaPotha Font)
3. Press J - what do you see ? ව
4. Type sequence of Characters e.g. වයන්න
5. Select the character and change the font to Arial
6. It will NOT change to English, or else you will see a box or question mark
Issues
1.Keyboard Layout
2.Keyboard Driver
3.Keying Sequence

8. Four different main categories
Typeface
Basic design of the character
Four different main categories
Serif
San Serif
Script
Decorative / Ornamental

9. Serif Have attributes or strokes at the tips of the letter
Used for body text in printed publications

10. San Serief Have no attributes or strokes at the tips of the letter
Very large or very small text and for digital display

11. Decorative / Ornamental
Catch the eyes
Hard to read
Used for decoration
Headlines on flyers and advertisements

12. Appears to have been written by hand
Script
Appears to have been written by hand
Poetry
Announcement
Formal Invitation

13. Sinhala and Tamil
Category

14. Font Style
Regular
Bold
Italic
Bold Italic

15. Font
Is a file with a collection of characters with a specific typeface and style
Font Family
Is a group of font files with a collection of characters with specific typeface and style

16. Non - Unicode Font
8 bit font
256 characters

17. How font is stored
Glyph

18. Non - Unicode Font oQ
o + Q

19. Non - Unicode Font
o + Q = yen
o Q
Keyboard driver

20. Every font has different layouts

22. Unicode Font
256 * 256 = 65536
Every base character is given a number called a Unicode code point

24. ක ු - කු
Substitution
Font Rule
0d9A
3482
0dd4
3540

28. තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණ යටිතල පහසුකම්‍ ද අවස්ථාවන්ද සලසන්නාවූ පරිසරයක් ගොඩනැංවීම, ICTA මානව සම්‍පත් දියුණු කිරීම, පාලනය පුරවැසි සේවාවන් යථාවක් බවට පත් කිරීම, සමාජ ආර්ථික වර්ධනය තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණය ලීවරයක් ලෙස යොදාගැනීම සහ ලංකාව තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ තෝතැන්නක් බවට අභිවර්ධනය කිරීම ආවරණය කිරීම ICTA මගින් කරනු ලැබේ. මෙම ජාතික ICT මාර්ග සිතියම අනුගමනය කිරීමේදී සෑම වැඩසටහන් වලම හවුල්කරුවන් යොමු කණ්ඩායම් බිහිකර යොදා ගැනීම අප විසින් කරනු ලැබේ.

29. Unicode Keying-in Sequence
‌ෙ ක ා ්
f l d a කෝ
ක ෝ
ක ‌ෙ ා ්
l f d a

30. You yet need a driver and Layout
Unicode Fonts
Glyphs
Rules
You yet need a driver and Layout

31. කෝ To type in unicode ක ෝ ‌ෙ ක ා ් Unicode font with rules
Keyboard Layout
Keyboard Driver
OS Rendering Engine
OpenType Tables
Font
Font Rules
Windows, Linux කෝ
Keyboard Layout
Keyboard Driver
Rendering Engine
Mac
‌ෙ ක ා ්
ක ෝ
Font Rules
Files
AAT Tables

32. කෝ කෝ කෝ

33. Supports Sinhala Unicode:
Windows XP Service Pack 2 to Windows 8 ……
Linux
Mac OS X
Android
iOS

34. Font Tools Create Rules you need MS Volt Tool Fontlab Fontographer
FontForge
RoboFont
Create Rules you need
MS Volt Tool

35. Publishing Software Did not support Unicode Not enough Unicode fonts
Therefore started using Non-Unicode font
Adobe Indesign , Quark Express, Corel Draw

36. Adobe Suite has its rendering engine embedded
OpenType Tables
Font
Font Rules
Keyboard Layout
Keyboard Driver
Adobe කෝ
Rendering Engine
ක ෝ
‌ෙ ක ා ්
Windows, Linux
Files

37. Rakaransaya,Yanse,Rephaya

38. Tamil Ksha
க ் ஷ க்ஷ
க ் |ஷ க்‌ஷ

39. From CS 5.5 it supports OpenType for indic script

40. How about other Adobe Products ?
Photoshop, Illustrator etc…..

41. We created a font with rules which Adobe can read
Solution
We created a font with rules which Adobe can read

42. DEMO

43. Question 1
Application කෝ
ක ෝ නු කෝ
න ු

44. කෝ To type in Unicode ක ෝ ‌ෙ ක ා ් OpenType Tables Windows, Linux Mac
Font Rules
Font
Windows, Linux කෝ
Keyboard Layout
Keyboard Driver
Rendering Engine
Mac
‌ෙ ක ා ්
ක ෝ
Font Rules
Files
AAT Tables

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