Sinhala X256 Official

Unlike standard Unicode fonts (which rely on complex OpenType logic to assemble characters on the fly), Sinhala X256 pre-computes or optimally maps the 200+ critical Sinhala glyphs into a 256-slot memory architecture. This results in and zero missing character errors .

| Range (Hex) | Category | Count | Examples | |-------------|----------|-------|-----------| | 00–1F | Control characters & formatting | 32 | Standard ASCII controls | | 20–7F | ASCII compatibility | 96 | Basic Latin, digits, punctuation | | 80–9F | Sinhala independent vowels | 32 | අ, ආ, ඇ, ඈ, ඉ, ඊ, උ, ඌ, එ, ඊ, ඔ, etc. (all 12+ historical) | | A0–CF | Sinhala consonants (basic) | 48 | ක, ඛ, ග, ඝ, ඞ, ඟ, ච, ඡ, ජ… up to ඥ, ඦ, and obsolete (ඹ, ṅa, ḷa) | | D0–E7 | Consonant conjuncts & ligatures | 24 | ක්ෂ, ත්‍ර, ර්‍ය, etc. | | E8–EF | Sinhala numerals & fractions | 8 | ෦, ෧, ෨, ෩, ෪, ෫, ෬, ෭ (0–9, plus 10, 20, 100) | | F0–FF | Diacritics (pili), signs, and specials | 16 | ් (hal kirima), ා, ැ, ෑ, ි, ී, ු, ූ, ෘ, ෲ, ං (anusvara), ඃ (visarga), ණ්‍ය, etc. | Sinhala X256

Sinhala script, used by over 17 million people in Sri Lanka, is encoded in Unicode within the range U+0D80 to U+0DFF. The core Unicode block contains 80–90 defined characters (vowels, consonants, diacritics, and signs). The term refers to a proposed character set or font encoding that expands Sinhala’s digital representation to 256 discrete glyphs. This report outlines its rationale, technical structure, applications, and challenges. Unlike standard Unicode fonts (which rely on complex

In technical terms, "x256" almost always refers to , an open-source encoder designed for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) . It is the successor to the older H.264 standard. (all 12+ historical) | | A0–CF | Sinhala