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Myanmar (or Burmese) script is Brahmi-derived, but distantly so. It is used to write Burmese and other languages in Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand including Mon, Shan, and the Karen group of languages.
Most distributed versions of the Uniscribe engine (usp10.dll) don't support Myanmar. And very few Myanmar fonts faithfully follow the Unicode Standard. The Padauk font uses the Graphite package instead of relying on the Uniscribe engine and OpenType tables.
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Mandalay
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(Mandalay.ttf) Warning: This font is not truly Unicode compliant. It uses unallocated codepoints in the Myanmar block to manually deal with shaping that would normally be done by the Uniscribe engine. You can use my Myanmar test page to see the font-specific mappings. The sample text in gray uses standard Unicode codepoints. The black text is font-specific: ကႆေ႔ကနဲႛ Source: Free download from Mahamuni Pagoda. Right-click and "save target as" if you get garbage back when clicking on the "download" link. Stats: Version 1.00 has 1,263 glyphs and 909 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Vietnamese |
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Myanmar1
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(Myanmar1.ttf) Source: Free download from the Myanmar Unicode & NLP Research Center. Stats: Version 0.450 2005 has 241 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Myanmar, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Myanmar |
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MyaZedi_M17N
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(Myazedi.ttf) Warning: This font is not truly Unicode compliant. It uses unallocated codepoints in the Myanmar block to manually deal with shaping that would normally be done by the Uniscribe engine. You can use my PUA test page to see the font-specific mappings. The sample text in gray uses standard Unicode codepoints. The black text is font-specific: ကေကနဲ Source: Free download from Myazedi. Stats: Version 1.2 2004 July has 360 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: n/a |
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MyMyanmar
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(MOLT.ttf) Source: Free download from MyMyanmar. Stats: Version 4.00 January 14 2006 has 866 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek, Latin, Myanmar OpenType Layout Tables: Myanmar |
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Padauk
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(padaukg.ttf from PadaukGrBurmeseFont_zip.zip) Note: Padauk is a Graphite font, not an OpenType font. It works in WorldPad (free) but not applications like Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer, StarOffice7.0, and Netscape. This font is Unicode compliant and the standard Unicode codepoints for the sample text appears below. Source: Free download from SIL International Stats: Version 3.00 has 158 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Myanmar |
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PonNya_Web
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(ponnya_web.ttf) Warning: This font is not truly Unicode compliant. It uses unallocated codepoints in the Myanmar block to manually deal with shaping that would normally be done by the Uniscribe engine. You can use my Myanmar test page to see the font-specific mappings. The sample text in gray uses standard Unicode codepoints. The black text is font-specific: ကႛေ႒ကနဲႇ Source: Free download from MamboXchange. Stats: Version 3.05 has 1,455 glyphs and 923 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Myanmar, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Latin |
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UniBurma
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(UniBurma_Regular.ttf from UniBurma_Font-version.zip) Warning: This font is not truly Unicode compliant. It uses unallocated codepoints in the Myanmar block to manually deal with shaping that would normally be done by the Uniscribe engine. You can use my Myanmar test page to see the font-specific mappings. The sample text in gray uses standard Unicode codepoints. The black text is font-specific: ကႆေ႐ကၾနဲႚ Source: Free download from the UniBurma project on SourceForge. Stats: Version 1.0.2 has 150 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Myanmar OpenType Layout Tables: "Lina", Myanmar |
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This page was last updated on 2006-10-01