Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka

Applications used their own fonts. No standard was used in the industry. Documents produced using one application could be accessed and used only through that application. This was a major problem when a person tried to use a document created by another using a different font or application. A copy of the font had to be sent to the recipient together with a Sinhala document, unless one knew that the recipient already had the font. This made the use of Sinhala e-mail impractical, and slowed the use of Sinhala on the web. Functions such as sorting in Sinhala and Tamil were not standardised among applications.

A critical and long awaited service in the area of information security for the financial sector is now fulfilled said Deputy Governor Central Bank Dr Ranee Jayamaha who was the Chief Guest at the launch of the LANKASIGN Certificate Authority in Sri Lanka held at the LankaClear Corporate Office in Colombo recently.