On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Andrew Cunningham <
lang.support@gmail.com> wrote:
2008/7/25 Ngwe Tun <
ngwestar@gmail.com>:
Hi Michael
Michael wrote as
No. That's not enough, because a user could look at a page with a Unicode 4.1 font -- and get an unreadable result. Or a user could look at a pseudo-Unicode font like Zawgyi (and there are others)
You aware that our bad situation. How can we make readable result. Yes, we need to put online converter in mediawiki in migration period. After stable enough in Burmese rendering, we do not need converter certainly.
Although on the fly encoding transformations would be a step backwards for promoting uptake of Unicode 5.1.
It would provide less incentive for users to migrate to Unicode 5.1
I think we try to win heart of contributor rather then forcing contributor to use Unicode 5.1 by Myanmar Wikipedia.
Additionally the converters aren't a long term solution for Unicode 5.1 data, the key issue there is that there are no opensource or free solutions available on Windows to provide Myanmar rendering on pre-Vista versions of Windows.
For commercial solutions i only know of one developer in licensing discussions with Microsoft that involve Uniscribe injection for applications running on older versions of Windows.
If encoding transformations are required, I'd suggest that rather than adding it to Mediawiki, such projects could be handled as an extesion or addon to a web browser, there are laready many similar projects for Firefox that handle encoding transformations, e.g. TISCII <-> Unicode, etc.
It is a good general solution solving one-for-all, but the solution demands that user to install additional plugin to the browser. It also have to support major browsers and there is also issue with maintainance of user addon.
I believe server side conversion approach is better for maximal usability and ease of maintaince of Myanmar Wikipedia.
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