Karen Language Representation in Unicode
I would like to discuss the possibility of adding letters from the Karen alphabet to the Burmese script block in unicode. It is my intention to begin authorship of a Karen education syllabus and to do this I need the foundations of a universal writing code. Mr Christian Bauer appears to have done some work in this area and I would welcome communication with him and other people who may have done some work in this area. The second interest I have is in the development of word processing tools that utilize the contents of unicode. I use a Macintosh with OSX installed. The basic language packages are very good but they do not have the Burmese script included. I would like to develop a writing tool that is similar to the Japanese ことえりwhere phonetics are typed in and drop down windows offer suggested scripts or fonts. I may be contacted via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I look forward to further communications. regards Heath Batterham
Re: Karen Language Representation in Unicode
I've discussed the matter with Christian and you can write to me about it. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
Re: Karen Language Representation in Unicode
Heather Batterham wrote on 07/20/2003 06:46:16 AM: The second interest I have is in the development of word processing tools that utilize the contents of unicode. I use a Macintosh with OSX installed. The basic language packages are very good but they do not have the Burmese script included. The only working font implementation for Burmese script that I know of is a one that we have (in beta), implemented using Graphite rendering. It's available at http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiitem_id=GraphiteFonts. Unfortunately, Graphite is not currently available for use on the Mac, though I understand significant interest has been expressed in seeing a Mac port. A Linux port is in progress. - Peter --- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
Re: Karen Language Representation in Unicode
Michael Everson wrote on 07/20/2003 07:09:40 AM: I've discussed the matter with Christian and you can write to me about it. It would be appreciated if you could please include Martin Hosken [EMAIL PROTECTED] and me in that discussion. - Peter --- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
Re: Karen Language Representation in Unicode
The second interest I have is in the development of word processing tools that utilize the contents of unicode. I use a Macintosh with OSX installed. The basic language packages are very good but they do not have the Burmese script included. See this site for an existing Burmese kit: http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxBurmese.html
Re: Karen Language Representation in Unicode
On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 7:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heather Batterham wrote on 07/20/2003 06:46:16 AM: The second interest I have is in the development of word processing tools that utilize the contents of unicode. I use a Macintosh with OSX installed. The basic language packages are very good but they do not have the Burmese script included. The only working font implementation for Burmese script that I know of is a one that we have (in beta), implemented using Graphite rendering. It's available at http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php? site_id=nrsiitem_id=GraphiteFonts. We could probably help you get it to work on Mac OS X. Meanwhile, Xenotype claims to have a Burmese language kit for Mac OS X (http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxBurmese.html), although nobody at Apple has seen it, so we can't confirm that it works as advertised. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/
