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Sinhala is a Unicode block containing characters for the Sinhala and Pali languages of Sri Lanka, and is also used for writing Sanskrit in Sri Lanka. The Sinhala allocation is loosely based on the ISCII standard, except that Sinhala contains extra prenasalized consonant letters, leading to inconsistencies with other ISCII-Unicode script allocations.
Sinhala script was added to the Unicode Standard in September 1999 with the release of version 3.0. This character allocation has been adopted in Sri Lanka as the Standard SLS1134. The main Unicode block for Sinhala is U+0D80–U+0DFF. Another block, Sinhala Archaic Numbers, was added to Unicode in version 7.0.0 in June 2014. Its range is U+ ...
The 57-stroke character biáng (see Biang biang noodles) in regular script, suitable for brush calligraphy. Here is how this was created: Opened a new photoshop project. On separate text layers, typed in the elements: "宀八言ㄠㄠ長長馬心月刂辶".
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In contrast, a character entity reference refers to a character by the name of an entity which has the desired character as its replacement text. The entity must either be predefined (built into the markup language) or explicitly declared in a Document Type Definition (DTD). The format is the same as for any entity reference: &name;
Members of the Unicode Consortium supported the character shape. [16] In a possible April fools' joke , Toshiya Suzuki suggested adding a new block ("CJK Complex Ideographic Symbols"), setting " " as a basic shape, unifying the variation and even admitting " " as a variant of the character.
The second type of conjunct formation is through pure ligatures, where the constituent consonants are written together in a single graphic form. This ligature may be recognizable as being a combination of two characters or it can have a conjunct ligature unrelated to its constituent characters. ବ୍ (b) + ବ (ba) gives the ligature bba: