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Why Sinhala copied from a Sri Lankan gazette looks like "Y%S ,xld" (and how to turn it into Unicode)
Copy a line of Sinhala from a Sri Lankan government gazette PDF and paste it somewhere. You don't get Sinhala. You get this: Y%S ,xld m%cd;dka;%sl iudcjd§ ckrcfha .eiÜ m;%h That line is the gazette's...