Viewing Sinhala Outside Of Sri Lanka?

[NateM]

Hello,

I have a computer bought in the U.S. I have downloaded unicode Sri Lankan fonts and IME for Sinhala. However, I have trouble reading documents that have been sent to me from Sri Lanka. It always turns out something like:

Thdg fmïjf;la bkakjo @'
^kS fhda kka mx fhda ud @&

...rather than proper Sinhala. Can anyone tell me why this is happening, and how i can open documents with proper Sinhala fonts (particularly MS Word files)? Thank you for any help you can provide.

 

[kamalmawa]

This has nothing to do with your PC bought in US.. Because many of us (Sri Lankans) use US English & US Keyboard format.. Ask the person who sent u those documents what font they used to type them.. Because they might have use some other old font..

 

[DJ.Parker]

i can see/read the sinhala fonts there.......cant u read it NateM? may be they have used sinhala unicodes

 

[kamalmawa]

Dude I was right ... They used different font. I manged to copy your text and found a match. Try install this font and select it in your word document

http://rapidshare.com/files/171743224/MIHARSHA.TTF

before your text:

After highlighting and changing the font to Mi_Harsha:

Goodluck

 

[kamalmawa]

This isn't the only font matches for this typing.. I found few others as well

 

[NateM]

That's great. Thanks a lot.