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. 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.
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 is also not very application here. We are also doing CSS guideline for Burmese web document
here, which is integrated in our
Users' Myanmar Wikipedia. As you see, we did one year work of
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. Also please note, active contributors in Users' Myanmar Wikipedia is greater than current
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> 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?