Washington
19 November 2008
The development of the Khmer Unicode font has many benefits for Cambodia, according to Be Chantra, a communications officer of the Open Institute, a local organization that designed the font and the operating system Open Office.
“First of all, the Khmer Unicode font allows users to type faster and follow the Cambodian grammar, for example, you type the way you spell the word,” Be Chantra said, as a guest on “Hello VOA.”
Cambodia has had difficulty in the past providing a font that operating systems can work with, or that is universal. With Khmer Unicode, the designers hope to make it easier.
Another benefit is that computer programmers can use Khmer Unicode to design a whole program or operation system in Khmer, Be Chantra said.
Lastly, people can search for news and information relating to Cambodia, in Khmer.
“The other cool thing is that people can also chat and email using the Khmer Unicode font on the line if both sides have the font,” he said.
The Khmer Unicode font is free for all. Those who live in Phnom Penh can go to the Open Institute office and get a free CD-Rom for installation. Overseas Khmer-speakers can download the font free of charge at www.khmeros.info.
“First of all, the Khmer Unicode font allows users to type faster and follow the Cambodian grammar, for example, you type the way you spell the word,” Be Chantra said, as a guest on “Hello VOA.”
Cambodia has had difficulty in the past providing a font that operating systems can work with, or that is universal. With Khmer Unicode, the designers hope to make it easier.
Another benefit is that computer programmers can use Khmer Unicode to design a whole program or operation system in Khmer, Be Chantra said.
Lastly, people can search for news and information relating to Cambodia, in Khmer.
“The other cool thing is that people can also chat and email using the Khmer Unicode font on the line if both sides have the font,” he said.
The Khmer Unicode font is free for all. Those who live in Phnom Penh can go to the Open Institute office and get a free CD-Rom for installation. Overseas Khmer-speakers can download the font free of charge at www.khmeros.info.
4 comments:
Dear Chantra,
I am fully supported for Khmer Unicode. But the problem is some word we still cannot use the Khmer Unicode, and we still need the Limoon.
And another problem is We still need to install it in our computer. if your association can enforce to put in the Microsoft build-in, when we install the Microsoft then we can use. That's good for us.
For some word that we cannot type, or I may not know how to type, if your can email your contact at bora@camangkor.com
I a looking forward to hearing from you.
Bora Kea
MS Windows Vista has default support for Khmer Unicode but they use their own font. I think next version of windows will make it easier.
Also you might want to get a hand on Linux, comes with Khmer support. Don't get stuck with Microsoft.
http://mitleap.com - web site all in khmer unicode.
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