<div>Hello Htoo and Michael,</div>
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<div>Before things really get started, we will want to make sure that everything is planned in the right way. Here I will talk about a few Shan letters on the proposal block and about the keyboards.</div>
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<div><strong>A few Shan letters on the proposal block</strong></div>
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<div>There are three letters Shan HA U+1081, Shan FA U+107E and Shan NA U+107C in the block that should be readjusted for their proper shapes. The lower shapes of HA and FA are too straight. The in between of the shape of Shan Na is too close at the moment. Please refer to the font file "AJK Salween Tai" I send as attached now for their proper and nice shapes. I got this feedback when I showed the final proposal to some users.
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<div><strong>Keyboards</strong></div>
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<div>For the keyboard layouts and their drivers etc., we want unique names for them. We will prefer the names as (WILL IT BE OKAY? We use <strong>TAI</strong> here to represent our real name by which we call ourselves, not Shan that is a corruption of Burmese pronunciation of Siam - the present Thai.)
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<div><strong>Tai - AJK</strong> (as AJK Salween Tai keyboard driver) and </div>
<div><strong>AJK Salween Tai</strong> (as AJK Keyboard Design name. So its original name can be used)</div>
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<div><strong>Tai - SAI</strong> (for Sai) and</div>
<div><strong>Sai </strong>(as Sai Keyboard Design name. So its original name can be used)</div>
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<div><strong>Tai - SHAN</strong> (for B_ShanBB). For B_ShanBB, Sai Murngzuen and Sai Zin will discuss for a few changes of the layout and also its name.</div>
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<div><strong>Sai Keyboard layout</strong> has been released for public by its designers and the font designers themselves. We can confirm that it can be used as it is. (If I have a chance to discuss with some of them about any change that they want to make, I will let you know. Without their notice, we can't make any change to this.)
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<div>For <strong>AJK Salween Tai keyboard</strong>, I have contacted its desinger and we have decided making a few changes. See the <strong>JPEG file "AJKKBL Revised"</strong> for those changes (in comparison with the previous one that I sent) and this can be confirmed for its use. For the remaining less used alphabets, you can put them with dead keys.
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<div>I remember you have talked about sorting system in Shan. Yes, there is. It's based on alphabets and the vowels used just as in other languages. We will talk about this after I can make contact and talk with the Author of a Shan dictionary later. (I am afraid you will sort it wrongly for any purpose.)
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<div><strong>A few questions!!!</strong></div>
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<div>When these will be done by you, will all these creations be distributed for free or as commercial? (Murngzuen and I have talked about these.)</div>
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<div>In what manner will the drivers for all three keyboards be produced - one by one, all three in one or all three mixed with the others? We will prefer them as either one by one or all three in one in this case.</div>
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<div>Under whose name and credit will these be produced?</div>
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<div>By which time will these be completed? (of course, the letters are in the state of proposal. But they can also be in the state of beta for testing purpose!)</div>
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<div>Are the letter sizes of your Anawratha font the same as that of Roman Alphabets for the standard? Most fonts, even Zawgyi, are smaller in size than Roman Alphabets.</div>
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<div>Can you provide now all the codes that will be used by you for the keyboard and font so that our font desingers can start designing different fonts or readjusting their existing fonts?</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Khwaan Tai</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Htoo Myint Naung</b> <<a href="mailto:vox@technomation.org">vox@technomation.org</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hello Khwann Tai,<br><br> It is my experience of developing MyMyanmar Unicode System (for<br>Myanmar Language) that Languages in Myanmar Script blocks of Unicode
<br>Standards are not conveniently used with non-intelligent keyboard<br>layouts created with Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. For example, e-<br>vowel rearrangement will not work on them. We need to use KeyMan in<br>the past. Now, I am developing completely new Input Method that I am
<br>trying to support all the Languages in our script block. If I can get<br>enough information, I will create Shan Input Method supporting<br>Spelling Checking, Word Breaking, Romanization, etc. This is far<br>better than Keyboard Layout Driver. My conclusion is that it is very
<br>necessary to work on Software after we get proper Unicode Points or<br>otherwise it will not make any difference than using legacy fonts/<br>Keyboard Layouts.<br> Thanks you you for information about Kayboard Layouts. I will support
<br>all three of them in my softwares. About Anawrahta Font, please don't<br>worry as we have enough time to test and develop it. And of course, we<br>need input from many Shans like you. Thanks you.<br><br>Regards,<br>
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