Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Reading/Writing Burmese/Myanmar in OS X

Burmese/Myanmar is spoken by an estimated 42 million people in S.E Asia. Support for this script is not yet included in OS X, but XenotypeTech offers a commercial kit for the Mac.

Sources of free fonts and keyboards are:

http://edwardwitten.blogspot.com/2007/10/zawgyi-myanmar-keyboard-for-mac-os-x.html

http://www.myanmaritpro.com/

There seem to be two standards in common use. Some info about their differences can be found here.
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2 comments:

  1. Joe ClarkJune 9, 2011 at 1:13:00 PM MDT

    A font with the curious and inaccurate name Myanmar is included in 10.7, release notes say.

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  2. Tom GeweckeJune 9, 2011 at 2:52:00 PM MDT

    Joe -- I'm curious how a font name can be "inaccurate" and why that one in particular. What would your preference be?

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