Sunday, October 23, 2005

Myanmar Unicode - Correction

I messed up. Coz I didn’t do my homework and talked. smile

Now I learnt that "Myanmar1" is the only font which complies with Unicode standard

Actually, myanmar1 font renders the mendials (ya-pint, ya-yit) with the combination of a-thet, , and ya ( ယ and ရ ) respectively. က+ ္+ရ = က္ရ . And subscripts also do the same thing. a-thet,  , and letter itself.
For “Mandalay”, မ+န+ ္ +တ+ ေလး = မန္တလေး. This is the linguistic approach for mendials and subscripts. For normal   ္‌ they add zero width non-joiner (200C)
no no, I’m not saying that u gotta type like that. Truetype Open font will automatically do it for you. .
characters
Fig: http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/chart/ 

from myanmar uni pdf
Fig: myanmar_uni.pdf

” does a beautiful trick here. It is arranged to be typed after consonant coz Unicode standard states that vowels are stored after the consonant. But I think, it is also useful for line braking. For word processing, Myanmar do not have space between words for line brakes. First method is to regard as a break before consonant. Now ya-yit and “” come after consonant not like before. Looks like it is solved. But there are more to consider. Read this pdf file for detail

Reference:
http://uniburma.sourceforge.net/?q=node/5 
myanmar_uni.pdf
ThanLwinSoft/MyanmarUnicode/
Myanmar Collation. (pdf)


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6 comments:

  1. အကို

    http://nyilynnseck.blogspot.com/2005/10/help-me-please.html#links

    ကူညီေပးပၙဉီး။ ဘယ္လိုေတၙ စ္‌ဖစ္‌န္ယန္‌းလည္‌းမသိေတာ့ဘူး
    စိတ္‌ညစ္‌တယ္‌။

    လင္‌းဆက္

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  2. I'm just reading this unicode thingie and I got lost :( Man this is just too hard for me. Esp with no burmese typing experience. Will try that slowly.
    But good effort for making it possible and thanks for that. :)

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  3. To type on the web I'd put this page
    developed by thanlwinsoft. It is
    easier to type gylphs with that page.

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  4. the following is the download page of opentype font and KB installer. http://www.mcf.org.mm/unicode/opentypedownload.html
    I should have included that in my post.

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  5. all the Installation instructions are here. http://www.mcf.org.mm/unicode/opentype.html

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  6. Hey guys,
    what shall I do for reading the Burmese fonts you posted? Now I see nothing but many squares.
    btw, you can visit me thru' degolar.blogspot.com (degolar=come here)

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