Cast Your Vote…
Jul 10th, 2003 by Jinja
Cast Your Vote…
Doing some web work in Phnom Penh, pitching in with the team producing BohChnout.info for Asia Foundation.
(Nope, I can´t take credit for the swanky design, I´m just helping around the edges.)
The tricky part is the Khmer font, since there is no unicode support for Khmer just yet. (I´ll see if I can dig up some links on this.) Once you get into the issue of Khmer fonts and linguistic families it gets pretty complicated. Most of the pioneering work is being done by techies and missionaries.
I’m just glad we’ve moved into the digital age. Imagine the typesetting headaches! Here’s a picture of an old Khmer typwriter.
Election time in Phnom Penh is curious… lots of political jargon being thrown around. Trucks full of party supporters blaring slogans via megaphones. Political posters plastered on every home and wall. This time around the Prime Minister is being elected, as well as local candidates.
In 1998 there was a bit of violence attending the election. Here´s hoping this one will be the quietest yet.
