Non-English sites

One of the good things that the web has produced is the access to news back from the homeland in local languages - Sinhala and Tamil. Upon examining a few Sri Lankan news sites I ran into this problem.

The following sites have Sinhala font:

http://www.divaina.com

http://www.ravaya.lk

http://www.lankadeepa.lk

http://www.lakbima.lk

http://www.silumina.lk

http://www.navaliya.com

http://www.lakehouse.lk/budusarana

The following sites have Tamil font:

http://www.virakesari.lk/20041101/index.asp

http://www.uthayan.com

http://www.thinakural.com/2004/November/01/Index.htm

I also noted that http://www.silumina.lk/ and http://www.lakehouse.lk/budusarana had their conntent in pdf files. Maybe to prevent people like me from using their content. Those two sites are in Sinhala font right now. So it really doesn't make a different to me currently.

So looks like I will not be able to use these news sources for this project. Maybe in the future, I will be able to include news articles from news sources in other languages as well. However, this seams like a long strech.