![]() It is of historic importance that a major set back for the development of Sinhala language computing was averted when an injunction on the development of Sinhala word processors taken by one developer against another based on a disputable patent was settled out of court after years of litigation. Original slinkyĪs for Tamil, no immediate action was taken due to the work being undertaken in India. This committee quite correctly took steps to meet the immediate need to agree on an acceptable Sinhala alphabet and an alphabetical order. The University of Colombo developed a Sinhala screen output for television displays and went on to provide election result displays in the three languages Sinhala, Tamil and English within a few years. With the introduction of microcomputers in the early eighties, Sri Lanka too embarked on the use of computers with local language input and output. ![]()
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