It was easy to use and was installed in many PCs owned by lay members and in the temple PC for typing articles. All this was possible because the utilities to create the keyboard and printer driver were supplied with WordPerfect. A lay person named Jayantha de Silva developed two HP PCL Sinhala fonts called Lihil and an intelligent Phonetic keyboard that was able to select letters based on context, together with a printer driver and screen fonts. "DOS WordPerfect" Reverend Gangodawila Soma Thero, who was the chief incumbent at the Springvale Buddhist temple in Melbourne, Australia asked the Lay members of the temple to produce a Monthly Newsletter for the temple in Sinhala, called "Bodu Puwath".CINTEC establishes a committee for the use of Sinhala & Tamil in Computer Technology.ICTA concluded the work started by CINTEC for approving and standardizing Sinhala Unicode in Sri Lanka. In the wake of this CINTEC (Computer and Information Technology Council of Sri Lanka) introduced Sinhala within the UNICODE (16‑bit character technology) standard. Sinhala language software for computers have been present since the late 1980s (Samanala written in C) but no standard character representation system was put in place which resulted in proprietary character representation systems and fonts.
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