On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Andrew Cunningham <lang.support(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
2008/7/25 Ngwe Tun <ngwestar(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hi Michael
Michael wrote as
No. That's not enough, because a user could look at a page with a Unicode
4.1 font -- and get an unreadable result. Or a user could look at a
pseudo-Unicode font like Zawgyi (and there are others)
You aware that our bad situation. How can we make readable result. Yes, we
need to put online converter in mediawiki in migration period. After stable
enough in Burmese rendering, we do not need converter certainly.
Although on the fly encoding transformations would be a step backwards for
promoting uptake of Unicode 5.1.
It would provide less incentive for users to migrate to Unicode 5.1
I think we try to win heart of contributor rather then forcing contributor
to use Unicode 5.1 by Myanmar Wikipedia.
Additionally the converters aren't a long term solution for Unicode 5.1
data, the key issue there is that there are no opensource or free solutions
available on Windows to provide Myanmar rendering on pre-Vista versions of
Windows.
For commercial solutions i only know of one developer in licensing
discussions with Microsoft that involve Uniscribe injection for applications
running on older versions of Windows.
If encoding transformations are required, I'd suggest that rather than
adding it to Mediawiki, such projects could be handled as an extesion or
addon to a web browser, there are laready many similar projects for Firefox
that handle encoding transformations, e.g. TISCII <-> Unicode, etc.
It is a good general solution solving one-for-all, but the solution demands
that user to install additional plugin to the browser. It also have to
support major browsers and there is also issue with maintainance of user
addon.
I believe server side conversion approach is better for maximal usability
and ease of maintaince of Myanmar Wikipedia.
--
Andrew Cunningham
Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator
State Library of Victoria
Australia
andrewc(a)vicnet.net.au
lang.support(a)gmail.com
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Okisan