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*And not Kaputa or Kandy or eKottu? Unicode is the international standard for non-Latin scripts. It is Wikipedia's policy to use Unicode fonts in international sister sites. This is to ensure universal usability. You cannot use non Unicode fonts to search in Wikipedia. See other sister sites such as [http://ta.wikipedia.org Tamil Wikipedia] and [http://hi.wikipedia.org Hindi Wikipedia] to understand it's capabilities.

*Latest Linux distros come with Sinhala support by default(remeberremember to select Sinhala while installing). Currently, Sinhala does not come built in with '''Windows XP''' unlike Tamil and Hindi. However, the beta versions of upcoming '''[http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx Windows Vista]''' comes with [http://jinath.weblogs.us/archives/031334.html Sinhala support] by default.

*There are also some complaints about the lack of ''pili''s in Sinhala Unicode. This is a misunderstanding due to the fact that some modifiers such as ''yansaya'' and ''repaya'' are not explicitly included in the Unicode code chart. However, these modifiers are included in the glyph tables and can be typed into documents using the appropriate combination of characters. The Sinhala keyboard layout recommended by ICTA include keys for both these modifiers.