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.
I am a bit of a technical weakling here. Can we support both at the same time easily enough?
Not on my.wikipedia.org. It would be like having French supported with both MacRoman and Windows 1252 code pages. The text encoding has to be conformant to Unicode 5.1 or it is useless and confusing to the user.
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.