"Peththappu" is also a software that was developed with Qt framework and intended for the community at Sri Lanka. The purpose of this software is for convert Sinhalese Unicode text into office type and and vice versa. This is the only software available in Sri lanka that can do the conversion of text in both directions.
Something about "Peththappu":
"Peththappu-පෙත්තප්පු" is a program that allows you to easily convert Sinhala Office documents that are written in Sinhala legacy font to Unicode format (Standard Sinhala letters that can be recognized in any modern computer all over the world) and vice versa.
Now you can easily convert your Sinhala Office written documents to Unicode format and publish them on the internet. It will save you much more time and effort. You will only have to type your Sinhala document only once and with the help of පෙත්තප්පු you can publish it anywhere without retyping your content.
Also you can easily convert Sinhala documents that are available on the internet (Written in Unicode format) for an Office document with any pre-specified Sinhala Legacy font. It’ll only Takes seconds.
Do you have problems with viewing Films in televisions with Sinhala subtitles? Most of the Televisions are not compatible with the Sinhala Unicode format. So you have to convert that Unicode subtitle file for a subtitle file that is written in a custom Sinhala font.
The solution is here...
Convert that subtitle file using පෙත්තප්පු and easily embed the Sinhala font you used with a help of a good subtitles editor.
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