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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 26 [ Fri ]

PKD now works automatically in IE

PKD is my phonetics font for Khmer, Thai, English and Vietnamese. I had nearly gotten it reasy a couple of days ago, but the .EOT version of the font did not work.

I took another shot at Microsoft's WEFT utility – the thing that converts a .TTF file into an .EOT file that MS IE can download automatically – and the new .EOT appears to work, at least on this machine.

A few notes from the struggle:

1. When I checked the blog today I was surprised to find that the link to the PKD test file – pkdtst01.html – did not work, and indeed I could not find the file at all. I uploaded it again. I don't know why it vanished.

2. In WEFT, "expert font creation" allows you to create an .EOT without having to point to a dummy .html file. It even allows you to add "offline" fonts which are not yet loaded into Windows. But I could not figure out how to enter multiple "bindings" – the locations which are allowed to host .html files pointing to the .eot. I wound up using the braindead "Wizard" mode. Remember that it insists on writing to the .html file you point it at.

3. When you are checking the behavior of the .eot in IE, sometimes the Dynamic Fonts Usage window doesn't come up, even though there is a binding problem. Other times it brings up a nice list of the allowed bindings. I don't know why it sometimes worked and sometimes didn't.

4. If you try adding "off-line" fonts, the oly way to do it is to point to a directory, and then it *also* searches all the *subdirectories* without warning.

5. This might not have been a problem except I had a bunch of old versions of PKD in a subdir, all claiming to be the one and only true "PKD" . WEFT picked one without any error message; it was of course the *wrong* one. Generally the "offline" feature seemed more trouble than it was worth, unless you have dozens of fonts to deal with I suppose.

6. Note that the bindings do not specify the allowed location of the .EOT file. You can put that anywhere. The allowed bindings only set the possible locations for .html.

7. In the .css which specifies the filename and path for the .EOT file, case is significant.

I am now going to get ready to announce PKD on Usenet.

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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 26 [ Fri ] PKD now works automatically in IE PKD is my phonetics font for Khmer, Thai, English and Vietnamese. I had nearly gotten it reasy a couple of days ago, but the .EOT version of the font did not work. I took another shot at Microsoft's WEFT utility – the thing that converts a .TTF file into an .EOT file that MS IE can download automatically – and the new .EOT appears to work, at least on this machine. A few notes from the struggle: 1. When I checked the blog today I was surprised to find that the link to the PKD test file – pkdtst01.html – did not work, and indeed I could not find the file at all. I uploaded it again. I don't know why it vanished. 2. In WEFT, "expert font creation" allows you to create an .EOT without having to point to a dummy .html file. It even allows you to add "offline" fonts which are not yet loaded into Windows. But I could not figure out how to enter multiple "bindings" – the locations which are allowed to host .html files pointing to the .eot. I wound up using the braindead "Wizard" mode. Remember that it insists on writing to the .html file you point it at. 3. When you are checking the behavior of the .eot in IE, sometimes the Dynamic Fonts Usage window doesn't come up, even though there is a binding problem. Other times it brings up a nice list of the allowed bindings. I don't know why it sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. 4. If you try adding "off-line" fonts, the oly way to do it is to point to a directory, and then it also searches all the subdirectories without warning. 5. This might not have been a problem except I had a bunch of old versions of PKD in a subdir, all claiming to be the one and only true "PKD" . WEFT picked one without any error message; it was of course the wrong one. Generally the "offline" feature seemed more trouble than it was worth, unless you have dozens of fonts to deal with I suppose. 6. Note that the bindings do not specify the allowed location of the .EOT file. You can put that anywhere. The allowed bindings only set the possible locations for .html. 7. In the .css which specifies the filename and path for the .EOT file, case is significant. I am now going to get ready to announce PKD on Usenet. [Single-story view] [/Asia/Cambodia/Khmer-language] [permanent link] Responses: 0 [View/add responses] I hope this information was useful. There may be a great deal more information on this site that is relevant to what you need. Take a look at the "site map" display at left; you can click on a topic to see many recent items on that topic. This page is available for searching. Debug: hittotal: 32 startban: 0 dancookie: endbandate: banned: 0 tempdate: tert: jse: jsno jsh: 32