Singlish Typewriter
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[edit] Concept
Singlish Typewriter is a method to typewrite Sinhala text on a computer using an English keyboard in English letters. In other words it is like typewriting Sinhala in English letters. But the final result comes in Sinhala letters.
E.g.
mama = මම
aakaasha = ආකාශ
Because it is a combination of Sinhala and English it is called Singlish. Singlish word is built from taking “Sin” from Sinhala and “glish” from English
[edit] Software
There are many softwares developed to achieve the Singlish typewriter concept. Some of them come as a separate word processor, while others have made a plug-in or an add-in to many existing word processors. Researches have shown that people does not easily change the word processor they have used for a long time. Therefore the Singlish softwares those are compatible as a plug-in has been more popular.
[edit] Development
Singlish is parallely and independently developed by many programmers. Even there are different features and techniques to get the output, the basic concept is to get the Sinhala letters by typing in English letters. Known developers of Singlish supported software.
- Dasith Wijesiriwardena
- N.P. Vishva Kumara
If you have developed software to support the Singlish concept, please insert your name here
[edit] Methodology
The basic methodology of Singlish parsing is to split the input text from English vowels. A single letter in Sinhala when written with English letters ends with a vowel. But this does not occur every time. When the user has entered a text in English letters, the Singlish parser scans through it from the beginning to the end. When it sees a consonant after a vowel it marks between the letters identifying a Sinhala letter. Then it query a reference table to get the Sinhala letter for that set of English letters. The that Sinhala letter is placed to the resulting document
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