Re: Concern with Burmese script

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Στις 04/Δεκ/2004, ημέρα Σάββατο και ώρα 04:08, ο/η Maung TunTunLwin
έγραψε:
> >> Also what about Burmese? Is anyone working on Burmese via
> >> OpenType, or does Burmese really require SIL's Graphite, and if
> >> so is anybody seriously working on SIL integration into Pango?
> > I think it should be quite possible to do Burmese with OpenType,
> > I'm not aware of anybody working on that, or on Pango support
> > for Burmese OpenType fonts.
> > For Graphite support, see:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135697
> > There are some unresolved issues with font selection that make
> > this unlikely for Pango-1.8.0.
> 
> Burmese/Myanmar script support is added to m17n library.
> See http://www.m17n.org
> That use only TTF and not fully functional.
> 
> Really, I intended to work on OTF font but it will take time. I have many
> progress on determining reposition glyph and wording breaking and fall back
> renderings. I also willing to work with somebody who can help me on pango.

Is there linguistic similarity between Burmese and another language (of
the region)?
Is Burmese so different to require "work from scratch", if I understand
it?

simos