We’re pleased to announce the first intelligent Unicode product for Sinhala on a Macintosh. This first version supports proper literary forms for Sinhala because we think it's important that Sinhala support be comprehensive and suitable for all purposes. If there's sufficient demand, we'll provide support for modern forms, even though some of these are frowned upon.

For those users who are interested in the Tamil Language Kit as well, you can purchase the Sinhala and Tamil Language Kits together at a discounted price of $69 USD.

The Sinhala Language Kit also supports the Pali language (sample text below) when written in the Sinhalese script.

The proper display of modern Sinhala requires several advanced typographic features like graphic transposition and a large number of ligatures. The premier version of our Sinhala Unicode font takes advantage of Unicode and Apple’s advanced typography to make all of these necessary transformations for you. The implementation of Pali requires additional features which are also included in our kit.

With an appropriate Unicode-compatible application, you can use our Sinhala support to produce lots of different types of documents, including emails, web pages, standard text documents and lots more.

The Sinhala Language Kit from XenoType Technologies includes one font and a phonetic keyboard layout. A second layout that supports the basic Helawadana keyboard will also be available to registered users shortly.

If you'd like to make a more meaningful purchase, you can also donate to a worthwhile project to get computers into schools in Sri Lanka...just following this link and purchase the Sinhala Language Kit from there. We'll automatically contribute $5 of the purchase price to these worthwhile projects.