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Jun 3, 2006

Khmer for Macintosh

Khmer for Macintosh
Khmer typography is in a bit of flux at the moment. Most people are still using older encodings and fonts (ABC Zerospace, Limon, etc), but it's clear that the way forward is Unicode (notably the KhmerOS fonts).
What this means is that you'll need to install all the fonts you can find. Luckily, PC fonts are generally usable on Macs. I've got the KhmerOS, ABC, and Limon fonts on my computer, and they work pretty well.
The next problem is input methods. You could always use the character palette for input, but vita is just too brevis. Some keyboard layouts are available, but I don't know how well they work with OS X. (I was never producing Khmer text, but always using text others had entered.)
Get the Unicode KhmerOS fonts here: http://www.khmeros.info/drupal/?q=en/download/fonts.
I know that they were working on a keyboard layout for OS X, and were looking for someone to test it, so you might write their mailing list and see how that's coming along.
Get the ABC fonts here: http://www.abc.com.kh/khmer-fonts.asp. There's also a keyboard, but I don't know if it's OS 9 or X.
You can get the Limon fonts here: http://www.everyday.com.kh/khmerfont.asp Tags: , fonts

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