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The Mondulkiri Font Family

Khmer Unicode Fonts

2012-11-05; 10035 reads

Table of Contents for this web page:

    Introduction
        Khmer Mondulkiri
        Khmer Busra
        Khmer Oureang
        Khmer Ratanakiri
    Further information
    Character Inventory
    Requirements
    Keyboarding
    License
    Download and Installation
    Support
    Release History

Introduction

The Mondulkiri fonts provide Unicode support for the Khmer script. ‘Mondulkiri’ and ‘Ratanakiri’ are the names of two provinces in north-eastern Cambodia, Busra and Oureang are names of places in Mondulkiri province. These fonts are provided free of charge. Previous versions of the fonts have been available since 2003 but are now available for the first time on the SIL website. There are four main fonts available. All glyphs outside the Khmer Unicode range are only provided to help in mixed text.

Khmer Mondulkiri

This is a very light font with separately designed shapes for italics, bold and bold italics. It is well suited for very small print. The Khmer Mondulkiri font now also works on Mac OS X.

Khmer Busra

This is probably the best font for all normal text. The font has separately designed shapes for italics, bold and bold italics. This font was formerly named ‘Khmer Mondulkiri book’ and the bold font was named ‘Khmer Mondulkiri semibold’. The name change was mainly due to the fact that the font name was too long for some programs.

Khmer Oureang

This is an extra bold font useful for headings. This font was formerly named ‘Khmer Mondulkiri ultra.’

Khmer Ratanakiri

This is a Mool (or Muol or Muul) font, which is frequently used for headings and signs. At this point of time most ligatures have not yet been implemented. Some coengs of independent vowels and other features used only infrequently in normal Khmer text are currently still implemented in a different character style. This font does not support more than one below‐coeng.

Further information

Other variations of the fonts are also available. Details of those variations, how the fonts vary from each other, and some general information on the implementation of Khmer Unicode are all available here:

The Mondulkiri Font Family (ver 5.513) Didi Kanjahn, 2012-11-01 Download "MondulkiriFeatures-5.513.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 2MB [283 downloads]

Quick guide to typing Khmer Didi Kanjahn, 2012-11-01 Download "Mondulkiri-5.513-Typing.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 51KB [194 downloads]

Quick Guide to Stylistic Sets and Typography Options Didi Kanjahn, 2012-11-01 Download "Mondulkiri-5.513-QuickGuideSSTyp.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 66KB [179 downloads]

Typography Options In Mondulkiri Fonts Under Appleʼs AAT Rendering System Didi Kanjahn, 2012-11-01 Download "Mondulkiri-5.513-Typography.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 91KB [164 downloads]

Stylistic sets in Mondulkiri fonts Didi Kanjahn, 2012-11-01 Download "Mondulkiri-5.513-StylisticSets.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 70KB [145 downloads]

The orthographical syllable in Khmer and rules for the rendering of register shifters Didi Kanjahn, 2012-11-01 Download "Mondulkiri-5.513-Ortho.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 162KB [261 downloads]

Differences in the Implementations of Khmer Unicode Didi Kanjahn, 2012-11-01 Download "Mondulkiri-5.513-Diff.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 77KB [173 downloads]

Character Inventory

The Mondulkiri fonts contain all Khmer and all basic Latin characters. They also contain a limited number of characters used in some languages in Vietnam and many phonetic characters. The choice of characters included is based on the personal decision of the designer.

Supported character ranges

Requirements

The Mondulkiri fonts are designed to work on systems and with applications that provide support for OpenType fonts and for Unicode character encoding. Khmer support requires a version of Uniscribe that is equal to or greater than 1.626.5756.0.

The fonts have been minimally tested to work on Pango as well.

The Khmer Mondulkiri font (but not yet Khmer Busra or any other font on this page) now also works on Mac OS X and includes a number of options relating to glyph shapes and positioning of some diacritics. Please refer to the documentation (‘Typography options in Mondulkiri fonts’ and ‘Quick Guide to Stylistic Sets and Typography Options’). The font also works with Adobe CS 5 and CS 5.5 with similar options. Please refer to the documentation (‘Stylistic sets in Mondulkiri fonts’ and ‘Quick Guide to Stylistic Sets and Typography Options’). On OS X the font inserts dotted circles similar to the way Windows does, in order to help the user to type 'correctly'. Correctly typed text (i.e. in pronunciation order, without dotted circles) will look the same in OS X, Windows or Adobe CS. However, a few typing mistakes in text typed in Windows will show dotted circles in OS X (e.g. certain coengs typed after certain vowels). For details see ‘Quick guide to typing Khmer’ and ‘Differences in the Implementations of Khmer Unicode’. For some general considerations of Khmer Unicode, including ideas and suggestions for the implementation of Khmer Unicode in fonts and software see the document ‘The orthographical syllable in Khmer and rules for the rendering of register shifters’.

Keyboarding

In order to type Khmer, you will need to use a keyboard program. Vista and Windows 7 come with a Khmer keyboard.

For Windows 2000 and Windows XP, a Windows keyboard can be downloaded from here:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/khmer/files/

A Keyman keyboard and keyboard table are also available as a separate download (see Download and Installation below). The Keyman source file is also provided in case you want to try to use the keyboard with KMFL.

License

The Mondulkiri fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), version 1.1. Copyright (c) 2003-2012, SIL International (http://scripts.sil.org/) with Reserved Font Names "Mondulkiri", "Busra", "Oureang" and "Ratanakiri".

Download and Installation

If you agree to the terms of use (described in the license above), then download the fonts from the following links. Previous versions can be found on the Previous Versions page.

List of changes for Khmer Mondulkiri 5.513

• Support for Apple's AAT rendering system (tested in OS X 10.6.8) as well as Microsoft OpenType tables.
• Support for typographical features to be used under OS X with software that does support them (like Pages or TextEdit, but apparently not MS Word or LibreOffice).
• Support for 'Stylistic Sets' that provide similar options in OpenType as the ‘typographical features’ in OS X. These Stylistic Sets work in Adobe software (tested with CS5 and 5.5 on PC), but not in MS Word. MS Word 2010 does support Stylistic Sets, but apparently only for Latin scripts.
• Support for Khmer Unicode in Adobe CS5 and CS5.5. Two of the Stylistic Sets address the remaining problems. Please refer to the documentation on stylistic sets.
• Many Latin script characters have been added. The bold fonts now also have bold Latin characters.
• Some of the vowel-a ligatures have been changed (e.g. Cho-AA).
• Many characters have been slightly modified. Most significantly the ‘hooks’ or ‘hair’ of some coengs have been removed(e.g. coeng-Kho, coeng-Ha, coeng-Qa).
• The positioning of many characters was modified.
• Many other smaller modifications of glyphs and rules.
• To prevent register shifters from being rendered as subscript, zero-width-non-joiner has now to be inserted before the register shifter in accordance with The Unicode Standard. Also zero-width-joiner has to be in this position now to force the alternative rendering.
• Increased the descender by a small amount so that second level elements are no longer cut off.
• For users of the Tampuan language: coeng-vo after coeng-ro and shifting of samyuk before reahmuk are now enabled by default. The Tampuan option now only covers the width of space and the permission to use samyuk after reahmuk.
• The support for the use of vowels and coengs with independent vowels in OS X is limited. If there is a real need for improvement please contact the font designer.
• Changed position of quotes (U+2018..U+2019, U+201C..U+201D) and mirrored U+201C.

Support

As these fonts and utilities are distributed at no cost, we are unable to provide a commercial level of personal technical support. We will, however, try to resolve problems that are reported to us.

We do hope that you will report problems so they can be addressed in future releases. Even if you are not having any specific problems, but have an idea on how this system could be improved, we want to hear your ideas and suggestions.

Please note that these fonts are intended for use by experienced computer users. Installing and using these fonts is not a trivial matter. The most effective technical support is usually provided by an experienced computer user who can personally sit down with you at your computer to troubleshoot the problem.

General troubleshooting information, including frequently asked questions, can be found in the documentation. Additional information is also available on the general Font FAQ page. If that fails to answer your question you can contact us at:

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Release History

2012-11-05 - new version of Mondulkiri released
2011-10-05 - Mondulkiri Bold added to package
2010-11-18 - release under OFL
2005-09-16 - update
2003-04-12 - public release

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