Myanmar Fonts which follow Unicode rules

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Submitted by Lionslayer on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 19:07

Myanmar Fonts which follow Unicode rules

Name Windows Mac Linux License Link Credits
 
Myanmar3 yes no yes LGPL, CC3.0 code.google.com Myanmar NLP
Masterpiece Uni Sans no yes yes GNU/Linux, OFL sourceforge.net Tin Myo Htet, Ngwe Tun, Sun Tun
Parabaik yes no yes GNU/Linux, OFL parabaik.info Ngwe Tun, Solveware Solution
Padauk yes no yes OFL scripts.sil.org Martin Hosken, SIL
Thanlwin yes no yes OFL thanlwinsoft.org Keith Stribley, Thanlwinsoft
WinuniInnwa yes no yes Free/Copyrighted myanmars.net Win Myanmar
Xenotype no yes no Commercial/Copyrighted xenotypetech.com XenoTypeTech
MyMyanmar yes yes yes Free/Copyrighted MyMyanmar.net MyMyanmar
Yunghkio yes no yes OFL Yunghkio Saiddzone
Panglong yes no yes GNU Lesser GPL Panglong Sit and Read
Tharlon yes yes yes OFL Tharlon Saiddzone, Ngwe Tun, Sun Tun

 

See also which fonts are not Unicode.

Myanmar Unicode Font Faces Comparism (30 px on actual image size)

 

Myanmar3

Fontfamily - myanmar3

Version - 3.0 (As of 18 March 2008)(Latest update on 27 June 2010) #Note: Need to set a default version system

Note: Myanmar3 MultiOS (OSX, Windows and Linux) version is available here.

Win Innwa 5

Font family - win uni innwa

Version - 5.0

#Note: Nearly the same font face as Myanmar3 and bigger glyphs.

 

Masterpiece Uni Sans

Font family - masterpiece uni sans

Version - 0.5 Apr 2008 #Note: Need to set a default version system

Masterpiece Sample

Parabaik

Font family - parabaik/parabaiksans

Version - 0.9

 

Parabaik Sample

Padauk

Font family - padauk

Version - 2.6.1

Known Issue - In a mixture of English and Myanmar texts in Firefox in Windows 7, English texts may lose kerning and combine together rendering unreadable. Update:11June2011# Padauk font English glyphs will have same bug on Firefox 4+ on any version of Windows.

Padauk Sample

Thanlwin

Font family - thanlwin

Version - 0.0001

Thanlwin Sample

Xenotype

Font family - xenotype mm new mandalei/xenotype mm new nyaungshwe

Version - 2.000

Known Issue - Rendering bugs on some character stacks and vowel "u".

Xenotype Sample

MyMyanmar

Font family - mymyanmar

Version - 9.005

Known Issue - Rendering bugs on some character stacks. Same rendering issue on English and Myanmar texts mixture as Padauk. Rendering issues on some character stacks, Ha-htoe+Wa-swe and vowel "u" on OSX.

MyMyanmar Sample

 

Yunghkio

Font Family - Yunghkio

Version - 1.1.1

Known Issue - Rendering bug on ဍ္ဎ character stack. Note: Fixed.

 

Panglong

Font Family - Panglong

Version - 2011feb7

Note: Haven't tested fully.

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Comments

Tun

Tue, 10/05/2010 - 03:03

Are they are 100% interchangeable ? Any compatibility  issues ?

By right, they are supposed to be interchangeable regardless of input method.

Could you also mention the versions if there are any?

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Lionslayer

Tue, 10/05/2010 - 03:35

I will update the details later including:

1) the image previews of the fonts

2) latest version no.

3) scripts and technologies used in rendering

4) known issues

5) support of ethnic characters

 

And of course, they are fully interchangeable. Myanmar Wikipedia was CSSed with all these font faces.

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sorlok_reaves

Tue, 10/05/2010 - 06:15

Hey all,

    Someone posted on FB an explanation of other fonts (like Zawgyi & Ayar) that are not Unicode-compliant.

    Maybe we should have another table, which lists other fonts & reasons why they are not Unicode-compliant?

    I think some people will wonder about this.

-->Seth

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Lionslayer

Tue, 10/05/2010 - 06:25

I will work on it 2nite. Having various keyboard methods and not having easy-to-understand keyboard layout images confused the users too. I will draw them & post here.

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Lionslayer

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 02:52

I guess I should add xenotype to the list since I tested last night.

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Lionslayer

Sat, 10/09/2010 - 14:50

Hi Ko MMT, plz fix the images size to fit in post tab. Thanks.

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mmlanguage

Sun, 10/10/2010 - 14:42

Finished the fixed

TTKZ

Sun, 10/10/2010 - 12:36

Hi, MyMyanmar supports AAT and works fine on mac.

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Lionslayer

Sun, 10/10/2010 - 14:11

Hi Ko TTKZ, I tested it on OSX 10.6.4 with mymyanmar universal file. If u got working mymyanmar, plz kindly mention it's version, file name, OS name and screenshot. Thanks. (Test preview)

TTKZ

Sun, 10/10/2010 - 17:38

I tested it on 10.6.2. Font version is "Version 9.00 October 24, 2008".

Screenshot

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Lionslayer

Sun, 10/10/2010 - 18:03

You were right. I updated on post.

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Saturngod

Wed, 12/29/2010 - 18:11

 

Masterpiece Uni Sans is GNU/Linux but I couldn't find source code. if masterpiece have detail tech support for developer, I can make iOS support unicode font. But there is no source and info. Can I know license detail of GNU/Linux ? I couldn't find source code and issue or report repo. Now, it look like free/copyright license not like GNU/Linux. 

 

Updated:

If somebody will add AAT rule for iOS , I will send font. Yesterday night, I tried but AAT rule was gone. So, I can't replace iOS native font.

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mmlanguage

Thu, 12/30/2010 - 04:02

Hi bro,
You should check with Ko Tin Myo Htet, Ko Ngwe Tun and Ko Sun Tun.
Regarding to the Credits in the table, they may have more license information.

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Saturngod

Thu, 12/30/2010 - 04:41

thank ... I will ask ko ngwe tun because there is no source in https://prahita.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/prahita/

 

So, it totally look like free/copyright license. I hope it will GNU/Linux in future.

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myogyi

Wed, 01/05/2011 - 16:47

@Saturngod,

Of course. It's released under GPL for both mymr-pangomod and Masterpiece Uni Sans. But License for Masterpiece Uni Sans has been changed to OFL 1.1 since version 0.7. In version 0.8, added support for Sgaw Karen and Mac OS X but only beta version of Mac font was released. Source code for version 0.8 hasn't been released yet :)

There're some works in progress for iOS here.

Cheers!!

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myogyi

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:23

@ Lionslayer,

Amazing... There's an Unicode Font which also support Shan released since 2009. I think it's the font with most coverage for Myanmar Unicode, 138 out of 160, among the available fonts. Developer name is mentioned as Sai Zin Di Di Zone but License information is not available. Please update the font list. Thanks.

Web site : http://sites.google.com/site/saiddzone/

Download Link : http://www.yunghkio.com/Yunghkio_Unicode.ttf

 

 

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Lionslayer

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:42

Sure, I will update. The thing is that the font lacks license. So I sent a mail to developer 2 months ago and still waiting for it.

Parabaik

Wed, 02/09/2011 - 14:16

Can you put XenoType and MyMyanmar in non-Unicode Standards.

Unicode (UTN-11) defines ဍ္ဎ = ဍ + Virama + ဎ But, MyMyanmar and XenoType do not follow that encoding sequence. Will you accept 1% incorrect?

 

Rationale: MyMyanmar stores differently as

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myogyi

Wed, 02/09/2011 - 16:20

We should consider it as a bug !!!

Yunghkio also doesn't include combine ligature of U100D and U100E, only have stacked form of U100E :)

Are you sure Myanmar3 also 100% bug free, may be 2% :P

Parabaik

Wed, 02/09/2011 - 16:34

Hi bro. It is either bug or deceptive commercial product.

Yunghkio has the glyph about combining ligature of U100D and U100E as A_DDHA_DDA as same with Parabaik.

I can say Myanmar3, Parabaik and Yunghkio has 100% bug free except personal preference and/or not implementing. We do not make wrong sequence (encoding) to change certain ligature.

saiddzone

Tue, 08/09/2011 - 13:46

Yunghkio (ယွန်းချို / ယုင်းၶဵဝ်) fonts is already removed that bugs and the latest information about the Yunghkio fonts can be viewed at http://www.yunghkio.com/unicode/