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This section is for articles which relate mainly to the Cambodian language, often referred to as Khmer. As with the rest of my site, the articles are presented in *reverse* chronological order. Also, they tend to represent things which I have discovered or speculated about which *supplement* the standard materials: this is not intended to present a free teach-yourself-Khmer course.

In particular, note that I originally focused on using the "Limon-type" fonts for Cambodian, as they were far more commonly used than Unicode. Although I believe Limon is still much more common, support for Unicode is so much better these days that more recent posts focus on Unicode. To get a balanced picture, you should read the entire folder.

You may also be interested in articles which refer to Asian languages in general: Asia/Language-misc

2006 Dec 23 [ Sat ]

Google.com now available in Khmer -- and works with Firefox

A couple of weeks ago I saw that Google now worked in Khmer. Indeed, they had done the same irritating thing as they did for Thailand, and make it come up in Khmer automatically if they detect your IP is in Cambodia.

It worked in IE but it didn't seem to work in Firefox: it just displayed the Khmer text as boxes, so I always had to click on the Google in English link. (I don't use non-session cookies.)

Today I noticed that it actually worked. The machine I'm running on right now has a KhmerOS font installed, although the keyboard driver is absent; I'm guessing that's all Google needs. I have to say I was none the wiser after I looked at the source for the page, however. Presumably Google has to detect the browser type and offer downloads of the .EOT version of the font for IE, or just send a call for the font to Firefox.

Conceivably also they only just made this fix for Firefox.

Incidentally when I suggested yesterday that my gf ask the staff in the internet cafe for help in getting Google to work in Khmer they said something like "huh? Google doesn't work in Khmer".

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