Special Thansk to UCSC

Original translation code was developed by Language Technology Research Laboratory - University of Colombo School of Computing. (2011)
Source: https://ucsc.cmb.ac.lk//ltrl/services/feconverter/

Installation

Repository: https://www.npmjs.com/package/sinhala-unicode-coverter

Using npm:

npm i --save sinhala-unicode-coverter

Using yarn:

yarn add sinhala-unicode-coverter

API

There are 12 methods exported from the package. Each of them takes an string as a input and returns the converted string.

Legacy format to Unicode

Method	Description
dlManelToUnicode	DL-Manel to Unicode
baminiToUnicode	Bamini to Unicode
kaputaToUnicode	Kaputa to Unicode
fmAbayaToUnicode	FM-Abaya to Unicode
amaleeToUnicode	Amalee to Unicode
thibusToUnicode	Thibus to Unicode

Unicode to Legacy

Method	Description
unicodeToDlManel	Unicode to DL-Manel
unicodeToBamini	Unicode to Bamini
unicodeToKaputa	Unicode to Kaputa

Unfortunately we don't have unicode to legacy functionality for FM-Abaya, Amalee, Thibus.

Singlish to Unicode

Method	Description
singlishToUnicode	Singlish (Sinhala) to Unicode
singlishPhoneticToUnicode	Singlish Phonetic (Sinhala) to Unicode

Tanglish to Unicode

Method	Description
tanglishToUnicode	Tanglish (Tamil) to Unicode

Example Usage

// Legacy to unicode
import { dlManelToUnicode, singlishToUnicode, unicodeToDlManel } from "sinhala-unicode-coverter"
const a = dlManelToUnicode("Y%S ,xld")
console.log(a) // ශ්‍රී ලංකා 

// Unicode to DL-Manel
const b = unicodeToDlManel("ශ්‍රී ලංකා")
console.log(b) // Y%S ,xld


// Singlish to Unicode
const c = singlishToUnicode("shrii la\\nkaa")
console.log(c) // ශ්‍රී ලංකා