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Standardised Sinhala, Tamil and trilingual Computer Keyboards

The ICT Agency under the office of the Prime Minister, together with the Sri Lanka Standard Institute, has standardized the layout of the Sinhala computer Keyboard.

Keyboards based on this layout are now available in the market, and will make typing documents in Sinhala easier and faster, the Prime Minister's office said in a news release.

The ICTA has also recommended a standard Tamil Keyboard layout based on the Tamil 99 Keyboard and a trilingual Sinhala-Tamil-English keyboard layout.

These standard keyboards will greatly help students who are learning to use computers, as well as those who type Sinhala and Tamil documents.

The trilingual keyboard will be useful in offices which need to type documents in all three languages.

The availability of Sinhala and Tamil keyboards will assist software developers to develop software in Sinhala and Tamil as they can write with their software to use these keyboards.

Although ICTA has standardized only one keyboard layout in each language.

It recognises that other input methods are needed for specific purposes e.g. when typing Sinhala or Tamil using an English only keyboard and will support further improvements in keyboard design.

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