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Picture by Pradeep Nishantha Herath.
by Renuka
Basnayake
“Computers
knowledge has become a compulsory subject today world wide. In Sri
Lanka the general conception is that English knowledge is a must to
learn computers. But we at Microimage pride ourselves on being the
innovators in language technology solutions. Our ‘Helawadana
Nawayugaya’ software crosses a new frontier in making a vast number
of computer benefits accessible to local language users,” said
Harsha Purasighe, CEO of Microimage.
‘Heawadana
Nawayugaya’ the latest Unicode feature by Microimage allows Sinhala
language computer users to do almost everything with Windows based
applications that English language users can do. These include
working on MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint and a host of other popular
windows based applications.
He further
added that Microimage concentrates on making products as user-
friendly as possible. Helawadana Nawayugaya has been designed for
use by all types of users, including the government septor,
corporate sector, home users and schools. Further the product is
designed as a platform for local language products where the company
plans to deliver innovative functions modules as upgrades time to
time.
Helawadana
Nawayugaya provides Unicode fonts as well as its previous non
Unicode fonts. The software includes language spell checkers, find &
replace functions, calculators, calendar, contact list and many more
features.
Speaking at
the launch of Helawadana Nawayugaya Dr.Gihan Dias, University of
Moratuwa and Advisor to ICTA said that such software’s are a
important factor to the development of IT sector in Sri Lanka. He
noted that its about time that Sri Lanka is recognized
internationally for its Computer and technology advancement since
Sri Lanka has within its people what it takes to take the Sri Lankan
IT market and education to international standards. | 