So, What do you want me to do firstly?
Is it not possible to do Myanmar Localization for Fedora?
Thanks..

~ Michael

On 5/26/06, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@cs.toronto.edu> wrote:

Also note that Burmese text rendering is not supported in GNOME
yet.  There is a patch for Pango to render Burmese, but it's
has not bee integrated yet, partly blocking on me, partly on the
submitter:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312731

Can use some native testers.


Behdad


On Fri, 26 May 2006, Michael Sync wrote:

> >>The Unicode standard calls it "Burmese". Unfortunately it is a very very
> >>political issue as is the name of the country. Current practice in the ISO
> >>discussions appears to be  "Burmese(Myanmar)" to keep out of the politics.
> Yeah.. You are right... Other thing is that the most of Informations are not
> available for online and these are not up-to-date.
>
> >>All the translation encoding is Unicode UTF-8, no code pages. Fonts may be
> a bigger problem. You'd need to find a Burmese font that was publically
> redistributable including commercially (as people sell Fedora CDs) and also
> modifyable. At least for it to be part of Fedora itself.
>
> You could do translations which initally needed people to install third
> party
> fonts but they would need to be addons unless they were "free" in the sense
> of free software.
>
> Here is the font lists which can be get as FREE. (Im prefer to use Myanmar1
> (1st one)  for translation.)
> Myanmar Open Type Font (Myanmar1)
> http://www.mcf.org.mm/unicode/opentype.html
> License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
>
> MyaZedi Myanmar Unicode Font
> http://www.myazedi.com/downloads
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
>
> UniBurma Project Foundation
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/uniburma/
> License: Other/Proprietary License
>
> Feel free to let me know if you need some informations from my sides...
> It would be great if you can answer me my question also...
> Is it possible to have the Fedora Linux Myanmar Version ?
> Everything except the name "Fedora" or Linux should be in Myanmar.
> Thanks...
>
> Could you please show me one or more screenshots of the localized Fedora? Is
> there any localized versions for Fedora?
> Thanks again...
>
> Regards,
> Michael Sync
>
> On 5/25/06, Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:04:47PM +0530, A S Alam wrote:
> > > >sugest.. Burmese is not latest name for my native langauge. it's just
> > old
> > > >name. So, it would be great if you can change the language name Burmese
> > to
> > > >Myanmar.
> > > sure, can you please provide me some link about that (showing that
> > > Myanmar is now)
> >
> > The Unicode standard calls it "Burmese". Unfortunately it is a very very
> > political issue as is the name of the country. Current practice in the ISO
> > discussions appears to be  "Burmese(Myanmar)" to keep out of the politics.
> >
> > > >    - Which fonts should I use in translation?  As of now, we have no
> > > >standard font and there is no build-in font for Myanmar in Windows and
> > IME
> > > >also doesn't support for Myanmar Language.. But When I did the
> > localization
> > > >for SharpWebMail, I used one Unicode which is I like the most.  But
> > When I
> > > >tried to particapate to SharpDevelop IDE for localization work, I
> > couldn't
> > > >join that team because there is no codepage for Myanmar Language.
> >
> > All the translation encoding is Unicode UTF-8, no code pages. Fonts may be
> > a bigger problem. You'd need to find a Burmese font that was publically
> > redistributable including commercially (as people sell Fedora CDs) and
> > also
> > modifyable. At least for it to be part of Fedora itself.
> >
> > You could do translations which initally needed people to install third
> > party
> > fonts but they would need to be addons unless they were "free" in the
> > sense
> > of free software.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
>

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