Copy a line of Sinhala from a Sri Lankan government gazette PDF and paste it somewhere. You don't get Sinhala. You get this: Y%S ,xld m%cd;dka;%sl iudcjd§ ckrcfha .
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/hirantha_sandaruwan/why-sinhala-copied-from-a-sri-lankan-gazette-looks-like-ys-xld-and-how-to-turn-it-into-unicode-4n35)