On my previous laptop, I selected DejaVu Sans as my editor font and from some magic or other, characters in Khmer were displayed in a Khmer font (I think probably Daun Penh). (DejaVu Sans does not contain Khmer characters, of course.)
Given a new laptop for work, this cross-font collaboration did not occur in the new installation of XML CE. I've been using the newer Win XP machine for a couple months now. Typically I switch between KhmerOS (or KhmerOS Freehand) for Khmer/English work and DejaVu Sans for work necessitating access to IPA phonetic symbols. Occasionally I'll use DejaVu Mono for XSLT work that doesn't need Khmer or IPA or anything tricky (DejaVu Mono includes nowhere near as many characters as the other DejaVu fonts).*
Somewhere along the way, something happened so that now I _do_ get Khmer Unicode characters displaying properly when I choose DejaVu.
Firefox (and its Cambodian-localized version, Mekhala) permit the user to select different fonts for different Unicode ranges; and I've seen NotePad and XML NotePad from Microsoft display Khmer characters with the font set to Tahoma (which doesn't include them). I'm not really clear what informs the OS and lets this happen.
At any rate, I wanted to post this bit of feedback for you.
My wish (as posted earlier in the Features list) is that different types of documents can be set up in XML CE, with separate syntax coloring and font selection. And that way a .xsl file will open up in DejaVu Mono and a .khm file in KhmerOS Freehand and so on. But I'm not going to look my gift horse in the mouth -- I'm happy to have wider access to character sets.
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Thanks for letting me know! Currently v. squeezed between a new job and erratic internet access (not to mention the source repo which means I can't do much at work until I find a way of getting through the firewall).
-Gerald
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On my previous laptop, I selected DejaVu Sans as my editor font and from some magic or other, characters in Khmer were displayed in a Khmer font (I think probably Daun Penh). (DejaVu Sans does not contain Khmer characters, of course.)
Given a new laptop for work, this cross-font collaboration did not occur in the new installation of XML CE. I've been using the newer Win XP machine for a couple months now. Typically I switch between KhmerOS (or KhmerOS Freehand) for Khmer/English work and DejaVu Sans for work necessitating access to IPA phonetic symbols. Occasionally I'll use DejaVu Mono for XSLT work that doesn't need Khmer or IPA or anything tricky (DejaVu Mono includes nowhere near as many characters as the other DejaVu fonts).*
Somewhere along the way, something happened so that now I _do_ get Khmer Unicode characters displaying properly when I choose DejaVu.
Firefox (and its Cambodian-localized version, Mekhala) permit the user to select different fonts for different Unicode ranges; and I've seen NotePad and XML NotePad from Microsoft display Khmer characters with the font set to Tahoma (which doesn't include them). I'm not really clear what informs the OS and lets this happen.
At any rate, I wanted to post this bit of feedback for you.
My wish (as posted earlier in the Features list) is that different types of documents can be set up in XML CE, with separate syntax coloring and font selection. And that way a .xsl file will open up in DejaVu Mono and a .khm file in KhmerOS Freehand and so on. But I'm not going to look my gift horse in the mouth -- I'm happy to have wider access to character sets.
Thanks for letting me know! Currently v. squeezed between a new job and erratic internet access (not to mention the source repo which means I can't do much at work until I find a way of getting through the firewall).
-Gerald