Wrong unicode character display for Sinhala Language

Malinda Punchimudiyanse

I am using notepad++ for my research and collecting large set of Sinhala sentences to build a language model of Sinhala. I just want to type sinhala characters ඍ (unicode 0D8D) and ඎ (0D8E) characters in the editor and copy paste sentences with those characters. Editor is not rendering those characters properly and display them as පෘ and පෲ . When I copy them from the notpad++ editor and put it in windows notepad it correctly displays the character in notepad. Can somebody help me to solve this rendering issue it is much appreciated.

guy038

Hello Malinda Punchimudiyanse,

From the official web site of the Unicode Consortium, below :

http://www.unicode.org/charts/

We can get a PDF list of all the Sinhala characters, in the range [\x{0D80}-\x{0DFF}], from the link, below :

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0D80.pdf

It’s easy to verify that :

The Unicode value 0D8D corresponds to the SINHALA LETTER IRUYANNA ඍ ( = sinhala letter vocalic r )
The Unicode value 0D8E corresponds to the SINHALA LETTER IRUUYANNA ඎ ( = sinhala letter vocalic rr )

which are, both, independent vowels

And, you’ll also notice that :

The Unicode value 0DB4 corresponds to the SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA PAYANNA ප ( = sinhala letter pa )

which is a consonant

Finally, you’ll remark that :

The Unicode value 0DD8 corresponds to the SINHALA VOWEL SIGN GAETTA-PILLA ෘ ( = sinhala vowel sign vocalic r )
The Unicode value 0DF2 corresponds to the SINHALA VOWEL SIGN DIGA GAETTA-PILLA ෲ ( = sinhala vowel sign vocalic rr )

with a type, different as the above characters, as they are, both, dependent vowel signs

Unfortunately, as I’m French and, as I, absolutely, not used to Asiatic languages, I cannot deduce anything valuable, from these facts :-(( Hope that these tiny hints will make sense, for you !!

Note that you can search for, any of your alphabet character, with the syntax \x{0Dhh} ( where lowercase h stands for an hexdecimal digit )

BTW, which encoding do you use ? Look at the right part of the bottom status bar

Also, what is your current font name ?

Open the menu option Settings - Style Configurator…
Select the Global Styles language
Select the Default Style style
See the current font name, on the right, in the Font style zone

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

Beware ! The glyphs of the two additional dependent vowel signs, (\x{0DF2} and \x{0DF3} ) in the PDF file, are reversed :-((