Unicode

Myanmar Fonts which follow Unicode rules

Name	Win	Mac	Linux	License	Link	Credits
Myanmar3	yes	no	yes	LGPL, CC3.0	code.google.com	Myanmar NLP
Masterpiece Uni Sans	no	yes	yes	GNU/Linux	sourceforge.net	Tin Myo Htet, Ngwe Tun, Sun Tun
Parabaik	yes	no	yes	GNU/Linux, OFL	parabaik.info	Ngwe Tun, Solveware Solution
Padauk	yes	no	yes	OFL	scripts.sil.org	Martin Hosken, SIL
Thanlwin	yes	no	yes	OFL	thanlwinsoft.org	Keith Stribley, Thanlwinsoft
WinuniInnwa	yes	no	yes	Free/Copyrighted	myanmars.net	Win Myanmar
Xenotype	no	yes	no	Commercial/Copyrighted	xenotypetech.com	XenoTypeTech
MyMyanmar	yes	yes	yes	Free/Copyrighted	MyMyanmar.net	MyMyanmar
Yunghkio	yes	no	yes	OFL	Yunghkio	Saiddzone

Myanmar Unicode Font Faces Comparism (30 px on actual image size)

Myanmar3

Fontfamily – myanmar3

Version – 3.0 (As of 18 March 2008)(Latest update on 27 June 2010) #Note: Need to set a default version system

Note: Myanmar3 MultiOS (OSX, Windows and Linux) version is available here.

Win Innwa 5

Font family – win uni innwa

Version – 5.0

#Note: Nearly the same font face as Myanmar3 with bigger glyphs.

Masterpiece Uni Sans

Font family – masterpiece uni sans

Version – 0.5 Apr 2008 #Note: Need to set a default version system

Parabaik

Font family – parabaik/parabaiksans

Version – 0.9

Padauk

Font family – padauk

Version – 2.6.1

Known Issue – In a mixture of English and Myanmar texts in Firefox in Windows 7, English texts may lose kerning and combine together rendering unreadable. Update:11June2011# Padauk font English glyphs will have same bug on Firefox 4+ on any version of Windows.

Thanlwin

Font family – thanlwin

Version – 0.0001

Xenotype

Font family – xenotype mm new mandalei/xenotype mm new nyaungshwe

Version – 2.000

Known Issue – Rendering bugs on some character stacks and vowel “u”.

MyMyanmar

Font family – mymyanmar

Version – 9.005

Known Issue – Rendering bugs on some character stacks. Same rendering issue on English and Myanmar texts mixture as Padauk. Rendering issues on some character stacks, Ha-htoe+Wa-swe and vowel “u” on OSX.

Yunghkio

Font Family – Yunghkio

Version – 1.000 (2010)

Known Issue – Rendering bug on ဍ္ဎ character stack.

 

Not Unicode

This table briefly explains why these fonts cannot be claimed to be following Unicode standard.

	Zawgyi-One	Ayar
Using Myanmar Unicode code points	yes	yes
Follow Unicode Chart code points	no	yes
Reserve space for ethnic characters	no	yes
Follow Unicode encoding	no	no
ISO Recognized	no	no
Licenses	Free/Not clear	MIT, CC3
Links….	Zawgyi.net	Ayar Group

Note: License of Zawgyi Font

License of Zawgyi font is unclear. In Zawgyi.net, it was only expressed as “free”. According to one of Zawgyi team, they bought the glyphs from one of Arthouse’s fonts and Zawgyi team owns all rights of the font. Arthouse designer said in a Journal interview that they only sold the usage of the glyphs and not all rights and Arthouse still owns the font. Apparently, MyMyanmar group also bought usage of Zawgyi font and added a few variants of Zawgyi One and Two in it’s MyMyanmar package and declared MyMyanmar owns the rights of Zawgyi font. Among the disputes, it’s difficult to judge what’s the license of the font and who owns it.

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