Sinhala is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes ( code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...
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.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Sinhala block:
References
{{Sinhala language
Unicode blocks
Sinhala script