The University of Colombo School of Computing has an excellent Introduction to Unicode for Sinhala Characters (although it's slow to access).

Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about the Sinhala Unicode block and its characters can be found on decodeunicode's Sinhala block page (in English and German/Deutsch).

SALRC (South Asia Language Resource Center) has recommendations on Unicode fonts, input schemes, and keyboard layouts.

The Unicode character code charts are available at the organization's website.

The Unicode implementation of Sinhala is described in chapter 10 (South Asian Scripts - II) of The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0.

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The characters used for the font samples do not necessarily form words but were chosen for visual variety:.

Font sizes for the various fonts above were adjusted to make them roughly the same size for the sake of comparison.

OpenType Layout Tables: Sinhala (default, Sanskrit, Sinhala, zz01, zz02, zz03)Īdditional Information About These Font Samples Stats: Version 0.04 2003 has 588 glyphs and no kerning pairs (potha3.ttf from the 'Fonts' folder of SinhalaKitOffice 0.5.zip) Stats: Version 4.004 2004 has 296 glyphs and 1 kerning pair (FM-MalithiUW46.ttf from SinhalaKitOffice0.6.zip) Stats: Version 1.000 2004 has 306 glyphs and no kerning pairs Source: Free download from the Sri Lanka Web Community Center. Stats: Version 0.81 has 769 glyphs and 69 kerning pairs Installing the Sinhala Kit also installs DinaminaUniWeb (Sinhala font), Malithi Web (Sinhala font), Kartika (Malayalam font), and an advanced version of the Uniscribe engine (USP10.dll, after reboot).

You must install the Kit to obtain this font since iskpota.ttf is not in the zip file. Source: Part of the installation of the free 'Sinhala Kit for MS Office on Windows XP' Beta (SinhalaXP0.4.zip). Stats: Version 4.1 11/15/04 has 402 glyphs and no kerning pairs Source: Part of the free download of the 'Sinhala for Windows XP Beta'. OpenType Layout Tables: Sinhala (default, zz01) Stats: Version 4.0 has 535 glyphs and no kerning pairs Source: Part of the free download of the Sinhala Kit for MS Office beta. Although the font works I'm told that there are some missing glyphs. (din-b-3.ttf from SinhalaKitOffice0.6.zip) The script is also used for Pali and Sanskrit in Sri Lanka. The Sinhala script is a Brahmi-derived writing system used in Sri Lanka for the Sinhala language. WAZU JAPAN's Gallery of Unicode Fonts Sinhala

Sinhala script fonts