Well, Ali Rameez songs are just better! I am sure you wouldn't have any reason to disagree. Anyways, while I was listening to this song last night, I thought I would put it up here as its one of my favourites ;) #Knock #Yourself #Out

Nuhanu reethi sooraekey X4

Kathi nazarun, kohlee zaham,

Hithaa kulhelaafaa, dhanee hey hey

Nuhanu reethi sooraekey X4

Kathi nazarun, kohlee zaham,

Hithaa kulhelaafaa, dhanee hey hey

Nuhanu reethi sooraekey X2

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Thi fari shaaba kan fenifa elhunee hanaa,

Vidhaa vidhuvaru moonu anburaalumun,

Hithah mihira vaa goiyy bunan beynumey,

E furusathu loabeega dheefaanuhey,

Fidhaa veeme jadhoogaa,

Nidhi gehlunee reyrey hey hey,

Nuhanu reethi sooraekey X2

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Thi kandhuraa mathin reethi ran kula araa,

Eyaa gulhuvaaney misaaleh nethey,

Laalaa laa la laaa ~female

Magey loa thereyn fennanee dhen kalaa,

Balaa moonu loaganduge beynun nethey,

Nuruhun nuvaashey dhen,

Ruhigen balaalaashey hoa hoa,

Nuhanu reethi soora ekey X4

Laa la laalaa, laalaalalaaa ~female

Hithaa kulhelaafaa, dhanee hey hey,

Nuhanu reethi sooraekey X4

Browsing through the internet or tinkering with some WebCode is a daily thing to me. So, every now and then I have to enter some thaana text into some comment box or HTML code via my mobile phone. Therefore, I had to find a way to have a full Thaana keyboard. When I went to find out possible options on the internet, first thing I saw was Multiling O Keyboard which has a lot of foreign language keyboards built in it. It also supports Thaana and especially if you have a thaana font in your phone (which I do), you'll have no issues.

So, first thing first, the proceedure!

1. Install the keyboard from play store HERE
2. When you open the application, you will see steps to follow in order to setup the keyboard.
3. Once the initial setup is done, open the keyboard by going to new messages or any other text box.
4. Now press and host the "space button", you will see languages among other options. Slide your finger over it without lifting your finger. The UI is more of a sliding theme.
5. Among the regions, select "South Asian", you will now see "Dhivehi" in the list. Click it and you are done!!! Unless you see empty buttons on the keyboard where dhivehi letters are supposed to be. That means you don't have dhivehi font installed in your system.

You have two options to resolve this.

1. Install a font pack called MyAlpha HERE
2. Or follow the instructions to install dhivehi font in your phone HERE

When you are done, here is the look of the keyboard ;)

I am a really big fan of antiques and history. And I collect bank notes of different countries, among other things. Here is the newest addition to my collection XD

TOP: MVR 1 (One Rufiyaa) issued on 4 June 1960
BOTTOM: MVR 2 (Two Rufiyaa) issued on 4 June 1960

I just had to share this little CSS menu optimised for Dhivehi Sites.

Here is the CodePen 

See the Pen Pure Css Responsive Menu (Dhivehi RTL) by Daniel Ibbe (@Daniel_Ibbe) on CodePen.

It is inevitable for every new web developer to run in to issues either storing or retrieving Thaana Text on a MySQL database. In most cases you run in to problems like your stored text appears to be gibberish (eg: the text 'ދިވެހި' appears as '??????'!). I faced the same issue and was left to boil my head for hours. So, I thought i'll make it easy for you. With just one line of code, you will be able to overcome the issue! Here I show you how to store and retrieve Thaana Text (or any other unicode text for that matter) successfully.

1. Preliminary Checkups 

A. Check if the table collation is set to "utf8_general_ci" from table operations
B. Check if the .php file is saved in utf8 encoding

These two things are VERY VERY important. Most of the times these are the two things people overlook. I personally spent many hours wondering and pondering about what I was doing wrong until I finally figured out that I saved the .php file in another encoding.

2. The Magic Line

After connecting to the MySQL database, you will need to set the character encoding to UTF8 like this in your PHP code

mysqli_query($con,"SET character_set_results = 'utf8', character_set_client = 'utf8', character_set_connection = 'utf8', character_set_database = 'utf8', character_set_server = 'utf8'");

This code tells the script to do all the operations after it in UTF8 character encoding.

It is a simple task to install dhivehi fonts in some of these android devices which doesn't support Thaana by default.  Here I have explained two possible ways to install thaana font on almost any android device. Knock yourself out ;)

1. Manually inserting font file in to the system fonts

Credits to CryptonsYk for the video...

Requirements:

• ROOTED phone
• Root File Explorer
• DroidSans.ttf font

Download Package (.zip)

On top of root explorer there will be a button called Mount R/O = read/only .. presss it and changes to R/W = read/write! Now it will allow you to paste the new font with Thaana support and over write the system font. I suggest you make a copy of the original file first, in case anything goes wrong. Replace the font file you downloaded with the existing DroidSansFallback.ttf font in the system fonts folder of your phone. You are done!!!! :)

2. Install thaana font using an android app [Root]

Now there is also an android application which claims to be able to do it for you ;)
Get the App HERE