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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

2007 Jan 24 [ Wed ]

Progress on my phonetic font PKD for Khmer, Thai, English and Vietnamese

I am still not ready to release it, but I have made a lot of progress.

I gave in and decided to add most of the additional glyphs needed to provide a phonological trancription of English, similar to major dictionaries: like the dictionaries, I did not trouble to provide the upside-down "r" officially needed to support the English "r" sound; I also did not add the glyphs needed to support the new special representations of eg the final syllables of "little" and "rotten" and "father" because I think they are based on foolish and inconsistent principles. (Also, I have run out of upper-case letters.)

I have also added Vietnamese tone symbols.

Here's a PDF (6 pages) showing examples of how PKD can be used for teaching Cambodian, Thai, English and Vietnamese: www.panix.com [http://www.panix.com/~dannyw/pkd/pkdsample01.pdf]

Version 0.99 can be downloaded from here: www.panix.com [http://www.panix.com/~dannyw/fonts/]

The .TTF version can be installed like any other .TTF file. If you get the message "...is currently being used and cannot be replaced" it probably means that your machine has been locked down so that you cannot write to the needed directory. Try unclicking the option "copy to fonts folder".

Currently the .eot version (which provides autoloading for Internet Explorer users) does not work across the internet, although it does work when the .html and .ttf are stored locally (on the C: drive). I need to fix it and upload a new version. When I've done that I'll add some more info and publicize it. Another issue is that Windows WordPad does not correctly handle the character widths, although MS Word does. (Because all the characters are actually ASCII, you can edit PKD in Notepad if you want to.)

Once you have installed the .TTF you can try this test file: www.panix.com [http://www.panix.com/~dannyw/pkdtest01.html]

The test page optimistically assumes that the .EOT will autoload in MS IE, which as stated above is not yet true.

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