Feature #582
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Provide fonts for a Burmese CD
80%
Description
There is ttf-sil-padauk package in ubuntu repo. But we(Myanmar) rarely use padauk font. Padauk can display burmese fonts well but ugly.
Here is source ppa of the most used fonts in Myanmar:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mm/+archive/ppa
https://code.launchpad.net/~bonepyaesone
You can see fonts package and ibus-table-package.
In ttf-burmese-fonts, there are three different fonts with three different encoding. 90% of Burmese internet users use Zawgyi-One font. Zawgyi-One is unicode 4.1 base font and doesn't follow current unicode standard. Ayar is about 8% of internet users used font. It follow unicode 6.0 code point and include characters for all ethnic group's language characters in font. But some of its character doesn't follow encoding stardard.
About 8% of Myanmar internet user use Myanmar3. Myanmar3 follow unicode 5.1 stardard and encoding standard and official font of government. We always have three options. In everyday use, we use Zawgyi-One. For government related issues we use Myanmar3. Ayar is alternative between Zawgyi-One and Myanmar3 because it is in between standard and non-standard. Ayar follow code point standard but not encoding standard. I prefer Ayar because it is easy to use. But if you prefer standard, I can use Myanmar3. Anyway all of three fonts should include in os distributions.
Best regrads,
Sithu
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