I am eager to have us support multiple fonts in a seamless conversion if it is possible. I do not know the technical information about this right now...
Kyaw Tun wrote:
Dear All,
I have forwarded my proposal of creating new Wikipedia with Zawgyi font to Mr Wales. This show our purpose of creating myanmarwikipedia.org http://myanmarwikipedia.org as well as imitating Wikipedia theme. I wish he also forward his reply too.
All wikipedia logo from myanmarwikipedia.org http://myanmarwikipedia.org will be removed immediately if and only if it is not allow legally.
Best regards, Okisan
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Kyaw Tun* <kyawtuns@gmail.com mailto:kyawtuns@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM Subject: Re: Wikia e-mail To: Jimmy Wales <jwales@wikia.com mailto:jwales@wikia.com>
Dear Mr Whales,
You can find /Recipe for Myanmar Monhinga/ in more than 100 ways just by googling. But you have to use Zawgyi font. Virtually all Myanmar web sites use Zawgyi encoded font. This include all media web site like VOA.
Zawgyi encoding is non-standard and have to be eliminated grandually by Unicode 5.1 encoded font. But for the time being, people don't like other font than Zawgyi.
So I suggest you to make a temporary Zawgyi encoded Myanmar Wikipedia sharing the same database with my.wikipedia.org http://my.wikipedia.org/. So people can happily contribute. You can terminate Zawgyi wikipedia in appriorate time.
We are doing the on-the-fly font conversion of Zawgyi<-->Unicode 5.1 in http://www.myanmarwikipedia.org http://www.myanmarwikipedia.org/.
We have such convertor for C++, C#, Python and javascript module. However we don't have PHP, so a bit of problem. Currently we are thing using Python module under mode_proxy, so that Python process is keep alife under PHP process. ICU module http://au2.php.net/intl is also not very application here. We are also doing CSS guideline for Burmese web document here http://www.openroad.net.au/dev/wiki/doku.php/css/burmese_language, which is integrated in our Users' Myanmar Wikipedia http://www.myanmarwikipedia.org/. As you see, we did one year work of my.wikipedia.org http://my.wikipedia.org/ in one weeks. We be note our home page do not contain commerical outbound links as you can see home page of my.wikipedia.org http://my.wikipedia.org/. Also please note, active contributors in Users' Myanmar Wikipedia is greater than current my.wikipedia.org http://my.wikipedia.org/. We don't need costly translation Mr Wales, as proposed by Mr Micheal Sverson.
Best regards, Okisan
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales@wikia.com mailto:jwales@wikia.com> wrote:
Kyaw Tun wrote: Myanmar contributors are quite strong but very disappointed with Myanmar Wikipedia. Thank you for your advice! Can you tell me what is disappointing to the contributors? How can we help?
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