Re: Pupil's question about Burmese

From: Ed (ed.trager@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 08 2010 - 16:14:03 CST

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    OK, I sent an email to the web site contact address. Who knows if
    that will help? Maybe if a *lot* of people bombard them with emails,
    they will get the message ... :

    >> from Ed <ed.trager@gmail.com>
    >> to dictionary@burmese-dictionary.org
    >> date Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:07 PM
    >> subject Please Convert Your Website to Unicode!
    >> mailed-by gmail.com
    >>
    >>
    >> Hi!
    >>
    >> Your website is not encoded using Unicode.
    >>
    >> This causes great confusion for your users. For example, they cannot
    >> "copy and paste" Burmese text because the text is really just ASCII
    >> Latin letters with a "hacked" Burmese font.
    >>
    >> It would be much better if you would convert your web site to use Unicode.
    >>
    >> Thank you!
    >>
    >> Sincerely -- Ed Trager
    >>

    On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Rick McGowan <rick@unicode.org> wrote:
    > Hello Philippe Blankert -
    >
    > Thanks for your interest in Unicode...
    >
    >>
    >> http://www.burmese-dictionary.org/tastatur.php?terme=hotel&termb=%5Bkdw%2Cf&id=2970
    >
    > That page isn't in Unicode at all, it's an 8859-1 encoded page. That's part
    > of the problem.
    >
    > Then, the Burmese characters on the page are all *images*, and when you
    > click the buttons to type into the field, it seems to send ASCII text to the
    > input field.
    >
    > And the WWin_Burmese1 font, which I just downloaded to check, is an
    > "ASCII-hack" font that is not encoded in Unicode.
    >
    > Hope that helps.
    >
    >    Rick
    >
    >
    >

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