Michael Everson wrote:
At 16:38 -0400 2008-07-24, Jimmy Wales wrote:
The
Zawgyi font is not compliant with Unicode and I will have
nothing to do with it.
*nod* I think we will not be asking you to have anything
to do with it.
However, it is freely licensed, available today, and apparently
quite popular, right?
It is not Unicode compliant and therefore violates the W3C
recommendations for Internet use.
Yes, I understand that. I am just trying to educate myself....
PROs - freely licensed, available today, and popular
CONs - not Unicode compliant and therefore doomed in the long run and we
should help try to get rid of it
Okisan and his friends have their own wiki. I am sure
many of the
articles there have merit, and one day, when the my.wiki is ready,
they can be transcoded and migrated.
That solution does not make me happy, though. It makes no sense for
my.wikipedia.org to use a solution that most people can't read, and have
the community grow up elsewhere. I want Myanmar Wikipedia to grow at
my.wikipedia.org, with the rest of the global movement.
That doesn't mean I like non-Unicode fonts. But it does mean that I
want us to take whatever steps we can to migrate people to Unicode as
quickly as possible.
--Jimbo