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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 Mar 30 [ Fri ]

My PKD font has succumbed to mission creep

I guess I wound up trying to put too much into it – I guess I jumped the shark when I put in the Vietnamese tone marks. My most recent version has added English prosody symbols (rising and falling tone unit symbols), but in order to access them you have to use the US International keyboard – ie the font is no longer by design 7-bit safe. Aargh. Incidentally, another reason for not progressing was that I found out about Microsoft's downloadable keyboard editor software MSKLC: www.microsoft.com [http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx] They demand that you allow them to scan the machine you're downloading it to to establish that the software licence is kosher. This of course requires that you access microsoft.com using Internet Explorer. I did try using a web-cafe machine, but the scanning program just gave a non-committal error msg (who knows – maybe it never comes right out and calls you a pirate).

Also, it needs .NET Framework installed – a large irritating download but not (the last time I tried) as heavily restricted as MSKLC itself.

After a little googling I found MSKLC at another site, but it still wouldn't run on my kosher Windows 2000 machine – again the error message meant nothing to me. I have just started downloading MSKLC from another site: www.zdnet.be [http://www.zdnet.be/downloads.cfm?id=36567] but I have a vague feeling that's where I found it before – the one that doesn't work.

If anyone has actually managed to run MSKLC please contact me. Evidently an easily-installable keyboard config with easy access to non-7-bit codes would make a tremendous difference to the design of a phonetic font. For instance, you could just switch to a PKD keyboard config and use the keypresses I set up for the special PKD font to access the Unicode characters! Also, you could create a new, simplified version of the US International keyboard that would allow you to avoid the nasty bewildering glitches you sometimes get when you're trying to enter Cambodian using a Limon font and hit one of the extended key sequences by mistake.

Oh well. As usual, the best is the enemy of the good.

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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 Mar 30 [ Fri ] My PKD font has succumbed to mission creep I guess I wound up trying to put too much into it – I guess I jumped the shark when I put in the Vietnamese tone marks. My most recent version has added English prosody symbols (rising and falling tone unit symbols), but in order to access them you have to use the US International keyboard – ie the font is no longer by design 7-bit safe. Aargh. Incidentally, another reason for not progressing was that I found out about Microsoft's downloadable keyboard editor software MSKLC: www.microsoft.com [http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx] They demand that you allow them to scan the machine you're downloading it to to establish that the software licence is kosher. This of course requires that you access microsoft.com using Internet Explorer. I did try using a web-cafe machine, but the scanning program just gave a non-committal error msg (who knows – maybe it never comes right out and calls you a pirate). Also, it needs .NET Framework installed – a large irritating download but not (the last time I tried) as heavily restricted as MSKLC itself. After a little googling I found MSKLC at another site, but it still wouldn't run on my kosher Windows 2000 machine – again the error message meant nothing to me. I have just started downloading MSKLC from another site: www.zdnet.be [http://www.zdnet.be/downloads.cfm?id=36567] but I have a vague feeling that's where I found it before – the one that doesn't work. If anyone has actually managed to run MSKLC please contact me. Evidently an easily-installable keyboard config with easy access to non-7-bit codes would make a tremendous difference to the design of a phonetic font. For instance, you could just switch to a PKD keyboard config and use the keypresses I set up for the special PKD font to access the Unicode characters! Also, you could create a new, simplified version of the US International keyboard that would allow you to avoid the nasty bewildering glitches you sometimes get when you're trying to enter Cambodian using a Limon font and hit one of the extended key sequences by mistake. Oh well. As usual, the best is the enemy of the good. [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: 44 startban: 0 dancookie: endbandate: banned: 0 tempdate: tert: jse: jsno jsh: 44