Application Development Efforts related to Myanmar Unicode

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Application Development Efforts related to
Myanmar Unicode

• Mr. Ngwe Tun, Solveware

Myanmar-Thai Co-Workshop on Myanmar Language
Implementation
7 May 2004, Conference Hall, MICT Park
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Agenda

• Current status of Myanmar Unicode
• Operating System Support
• End User Application Support
• Application Development Support
• WEB Development Support
• Database Development Support
• Online Resources

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Current status of Myanmar Unicode

• Already allocated in UCS (ISO 10646)
• Microsoft not supported Shaping Engine yet
• Application supports Myanmar Unicode Characters
• OS provides input render Myanmar code points
• Partial rendering engine supports in Linux
• Some issues to be solved in encoding

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Operating System Support

• Operating Systems Support Unicode
• Microsoft
• Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000 fully
  support
• Windows ME, Windows 98 partially support but
  cannot input
• OSS (nix)
• GNU-Linux, Redhat, Mandrake, and etc
• MAC
• Mac OS X 10.1, Mac OS 9.2, Mac OS X Server
• Sun Solaris

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Myanmar Unicode in Windows XP
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Myanmar Unicode in KDE Desktop
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End User Application Support

• Office Suite (Microsoft)
• OpenOffice (OSS)
• E-Mail Client (Microsoft, OSS)
• Input System (Unicode Based Keyboard)

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Myanmar Unicode in Office XP
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Myanmar Unicode in OpenOffice
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Myanmar Unicode in Outlook Express
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Myanmar Unicode in Mail Client (OSS)
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Keyboard for Myanmar Unicode Input
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Application Development Support

• Visual Studio .Net Dev Environment
• Visual Studio .Net Application

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Myanmar Unicode in Visual Studio .Net
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Myanmar Unicode in .Net Application
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Web Development Support

• Web Development Editor
• Web Browser
• Web Server

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Myanmar Unicode in FrontPage
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Myanmar Unicode in Internet Explorer
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Myanmar Unicode in Mozilla
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Myanmar Unicode in WEB Server (IIS)
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Myanmar Unicode in Web Browser
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Database Development Support

• Desktop Database Development
• Enterprise Database Development

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Myanmar Unicode in MS Access
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Myanmar Unicode in MS SQL 2000
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Myanmar Unicode in Search Engine
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Online Resources

• Myanmar Unicode Related sites
• http//www.myanmars.net/unicode
• http//www.myazedi.com
• http//www.unicode.org
• http//www.microsoft.com/typography
• http//www.microsoft.com/globaldev
• http//www.etrademyanmar.com/translation

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Thank you,Your Questions Comments are much
appreciated
Myanmar-Thai Co-Workshop on Myanmar Language
Implementation
7 May 2004, Conference Hall, MICT Park