Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font

1. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font Ngwe Tun Member 2005-12-16, Myanmar NL Implementation Committee

2. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font What is OpenType Font? OpenType is the advanced cross-platform font format which offers support for multiple languages and feature-rich typography.

3. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font What Technologies use in OpenType? OpenType uses two technologies that make fonts much more powerful. Unicode The first technology is Unicode, which allows coverage of multiple languages, even Asian languages, in a single font. Advanced typography The second technology is to allow advanced typography in the form of automatic enhancements to character shapes, and more typographic options.

4. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font OpenType, mixed font?

5. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font What is Unicode? Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. Before Unicode was invented, there were hundreds of different encoding systems for assigning these numbers. Unicode provides a unique number for every character,no matter what the platform,no matter what the program,no matter what the language. Unicode Standard has been adopted by such industry leaders as Apple, HP, IBM, JustSystem, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Sun, Sybase, Unisys and many others. It is supported in many operating systems, all modern browsers, and many other products.

6. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font Myanmar Unicode 1000 ~ 109F

7. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font Myanmar Unicode Encoding

8. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font

9. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font OpenType and Advanced Typography OpenType intelligently handles advanced typography - ligatures, alternate character forms, small caps, and more. OpenType fonts provide far more typographic capabilities by combining base character sets, expert sets, and extensive additional glyphs into one file. OpenType layout features can be used to position or substitute glyphs.

10. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font OpenType and Advanced Typography The application of layout features to one or more characters may change the positioning, or substitute a different glyph. For example, the application of the small capitals feature to the "a" would substitute the small cap "a" glyph for the usual lowercase "a" glyph. In Myanmar

11. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font OpenType and Advanced Typography OpenType layout features that automatically substitute alternate glyphs in Myanmar1 opentype. Many of these OpenType layout features, such as automatic ligatures, positioning.

12. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font OpenType and Advanced Typography OpenType layout features also provide reordering but it is still performed internally in opentype font because of Microsoft Uniscribe Library not supported yet.

13. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font OpenType support in systems & applications System Support Windows 2000 and above (needed Uniscribe patch) Linux Fedora Core 3 (needed Pango patch) Applications Support Office 2003 Outlook Express Internet Explorer, FireFox Other Unicode supported Applications Visual Studio .Net Acrobat PDF

14. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font Application Support

15. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font OpenType support in Linux Fedora Core 4 Fine Tuned OpenType and pango updated version supports Myanmar Language Enabling in Linux platform (Fedora Core 4) Linux platform already setup Locale Input Method Some Interface Translation Sorting/Searching Some server/application are readiness in Linux Mozilla Firefox M17N Technology MySQL/Apache/PHP SCIM/XKB Pango/GTK+

16. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font Screenshot from Fedora Core 4

17. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font Keyboarding Myanmar Keyboard Layout has been implemented by Myanmar NLP Lab. Created by Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. It’s not supported reordering or key pair deleting. And It’s supported to type as storage order. And Every possible myanmar words were well tested with this keyboard layout. If you type first in vowel sign E ?, may get some problem in this example. According to first come-first type reason, it should be erased most last word.

18. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font It’s beta, it’s not supported yet by Microsoft and Third Parties Should use non-critical purpose Not supported sorting and exact searching It’s not stable encoding standard but aligned with Unicode 4.1 Cannot calculate Myanmar digits Cannot shaping by Uniscribe Engine, Microsoft Code page, encoding standard, locale setting, collation sequences and keyboard layout standard are not standardized by Microsoft. Adobe Pagemaker, WinRAR, Visual Basic and JAVA are not supported yet. Really needed I18N skilled set.

19. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font But, we should approach to Unicode, Modern World Language Technology E-Mail Sending/Receiving Internet Surfing Collaboration Purposes Desktop Publishing Spreadsheets Small scaled database system Required l10N awareness How stuff it work (input, rendering engine) Myanmar recent Encoding standards Software compatibility check list User Experiences Sharing/FAQ/Bug Feedback

20. Introduction To Myanmar OpenType Font Thanks for interesting in Myanmar Unicode & OpenType Matters