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(a)gmail.com <mailto:kyawtuns@gmail.com>>
Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: Wikia e-mail
To: Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)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(a)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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