So, What do you want me to do firstly? Is it not possible to do Myanmar Localization for Fedora? Thanks.. ~ Michael <div>On 5/26/06, Behdad Esfahbod <<a href="mailto:behdad@cs.toronto.edu">behdad@cs.toronto.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Also note that Burmese text rendering is not supported in GNOME yet. There is a patch for Pango to render Burmese, but it's has not bee integrated yet, partly blocking on me, partly on the submitter: <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312731">http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312731</a> Can use some native testers. Behdad On Fri, 26 May 2006, Michael Sync wrote: > >>The Unicode standard calls it "Burmese". Unfortunately it is a very very > >>political issue as is the name of the country. Current practice in the ISO > >>discussions appears to be "Burmese(Myanmar)" to keep out of the politics. > Yeah.. You are right... Other thing is that the most of Informations are not > available for online and these are not up-to-date. > > >>All the translation encoding is Unicode UTF-8, no code pages. Fonts may be > a bigger problem. You'd need to find a Burmese font that was publically > redistributable including commercially (as people sell Fedora CDs) and also > modifyable. At least for it to be part of Fedora itself. > > You could do translations which initally needed people to install third > party > fonts but they would need to be addons unless they were "free" in the sense > of free software. > > Here is the font lists which can be get as FREE. (Im prefer to use Myanmar1 > (1st one) for translation.) > Myanmar Open Type Font (Myanmar1) > <a href="http://www.mcf.org.mm/unicode/opentype.html"> http://www.mcf.org.mm/unicode/opentype.html</a> > License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) > > MyaZedi Myanmar Unicode Font > <a href="http://www.myazedi.com/downloads">http://www.myazedi.com/downloads </a> > License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. > > UniBurma Project Foundation > <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/uniburma/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/uniburma/ </a> > License: Other/Proprietary License > > Feel free to let me know if you need some informations from my sides... > It would be great if you can answer me my question also... > Is it possible to have the Fedora Linux Myanmar Version ? > Everything except the name "Fedora" or Linux should be in Myanmar. > Thanks... > > Could you please show me one or more screenshots of the localized Fedora? Is > there any localized versions for Fedora? > Thanks again... > > Regards, > Michael Sync > > On 5/25/06, Alan Cox <<a href="mailto:alan@redhat.com">alan@redhat.com</a>> wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:04:47PM +0530, A S Alam wrote: > > > >sugest.. Burmese is not latest name for my native langauge. it's just > > old > > > >name. So, it would be great if you can change the language name Burmese > > to > > > >Myanmar. > > > sure, can you please provide me some link about that (showing that > > > Myanmar is now) > > > > The Unicode standard calls it "Burmese". Unfortunately it is a very very > > political issue as is the name of the country. Current practice in the ISO > > discussions appears to be "Burmese(Myanmar)" to keep out of the politics. > > > > > > - Which fonts should I use in translation? As of now, we have no > > > >standard font and there is no build-in font for Myanmar in Windows and > > IME > > > >also doesn't support for Myanmar Language.. But When I did the > > localization > > > >for SharpWebMail, I used one Unicode which is I like the most. But > > When I > > > >tried to particapate to SharpDevelop IDE for localization work, I > > couldn't > > > >join that team because there is no codepage for Myanmar Language. > > > > All the translation encoding is Unicode UTF-8, no code pages. Fonts may be > > a bigger problem. You'd need to find a Burmese font that was publically > > redistributable including commercially (as people sell Fedora CDs) and > > also > > modifyable. At least for it to be part of Fedora itself. > > > > You could do translations which initally needed people to install third > > party > > fonts but they would need to be addons unless they were "free" in the > > sense > > of free software. > > > > Alan > > > > > --behdad <a href="http://behdad.org/">http://behdad.org/</a> "Commandment Three says Do Not Kill, Amendment Two says Blood Will Spill" -- Dan Bern, "New American Language" -- Fedora-trans-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-trans-list@redhat.com">Fedora-trans-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-trans-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-trans-list </a> </blockquote></div>