Myanmar Unicode & NLP Research Center

Reference Documents, Reseearch Papers, Presentations, etc.

The collection of all documents (papers, powerpoint presentations, tables, charts and diagrams) in this site are ONLY for educational and research purposes, and non-profit non-commercial commercial use. Many files are locally stored for mirror purpose, because email users are restricted to many sites and internet connection is so slow in many parts of our country. (Data format used below: DATE: AUTHOR - TITLE)

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Completed Work and Documents

• 2006-Dec-22:Building the Burmese Lexicon|Power Point|
• 2006-Sept-28:National Language Support locale Data Template | Excel |
• 2006-Sept-28:Myanmar Locale Information Excel | PowerPoint|
• 2006-Sept-22:Short From Characters
• 2006-Mar-07:Proposal for Encoding Characters for Myanmar Minority Languages in the UCS|PDF|
• 2006-Feb-28:Proposal to Encode Seven Additional Myanmar Characters in the UCS|PDF|
• 2005-Aug-22: Keith Stribly Collation of Myanmar in Unicode
• 2005-June-:Myanmar Transcription |PDF|
• 2005-May-04:U Wai Linn Kyaw,Myanmar Unicode Implementation Standards|Power Point|
• 2005-May-04:U Sun Tun,Development of Open Type Font|Power Point|
• 2005-May-04:U Tin Myo Htet,Myanmar Language Enabling in Pango/OSS|Power Point|
• 2005-May-04:U Ngwe Tun,Myanmar Language Enabled Applications in Windows and Linux |Power Point|
• 2005-Feb-10:Unicode4 Type Error |Doc|
• 2005-Feb-10:Myanmar Syllablic Structure Adjustment |PDF|
• 2005-Feb-10:Myanmar Unicode & NLP Research Center- Myanmar Encoding Adjustment | 1 2 |
• 2005-Jan-23:U Zaw Htut,Status of Myanmar Language Implementation|Power Point|
• 2005-Jan-23:U Ngwe Tun,Localization Steps in OSS|PDF|
• 2005-Jan-18:Comments from Japanese experts on WG2 N2768r |PDF|
• 2004-Dec-07:Comparsion of kinzi proposals |PDF|
• 2004-June-30:iso_semivowels |Doc|PDF|
• 2004-June-30:visiting Cards
• 2004-June-21:Proposal for Four Myanmar Semivowels|PDF|
• 2004-June-07:U Thein Oo,Myanmar Language Implementation Efforts|Power Point|
• 2004-June-08:Proposal of Myanmar Script Extensions: Mon,Shan, and Karen(Kayin)
• 2004-May-31:Proposal of Myanmar Script Extensions :Mon,Shan, and Karen(Kayin)
• 2004-May-25:Proposal of Myanmar Script Extensions: Mon,Shan, and Karen(Kayin)
• 2004-May-21:Kayin Primer |1 2 3 4|
• 2004-May-21:Shan Primer
• 2004-May-21:Mon Primer
• 2004-May-21:Mon English Dictionary|1 2|
• 2004-May-21:English to Shan Dictionary
• 2004-May-21:a vocabulary english and peguan
• 2004-May-7: Thatanee charoenporn TCL Computational Lexicon |PDF|Linux|
• 2004-May-7: Virach Sornlertlamvanich TcL's Research |PDF|Linux|
• 2004-May-7: Virach Sornlertlamvanich Towards the Cross Language Technology |PDF|Linux|
• 2004-May-7: U Zaw Htut Input System and Encoding Myanmar Language
• 2004-May-7: U Tun Tun Lwin Myanmar Language Renderting System and Other Encoding Issues|PowerPoint 1|PowerPoint 2|
• 2004-May-7: U Ngwe Tun Application Development Efforts related to Myanmar Unicode
• 2004-May-7: U Tun Tint Features of Myanmar Language 
• 2004-May-7: UThein Oo Myanmar Language Implementation Efforts
• 2004-Apr-21: a typical Myanmar keyboard picture
• 2004-Apr-21: Kayin alphabets and sample Kayin (formerly Karen) text
• 2004-Apr-21: Mon alphabets and sample Mon text
• 2004-Apr-21: Shan alphabets and sample Shan text
• 2004-April-4: Sorting Order of Myanmar vowels in scientific approach - Doc | PDF
• 2004-Mar: Myanmar NLP Research Team - Myanmar encoding sequence | Excel |
• 2004-Feb: Myanmar NLP Research Team - Myanmar encoding and storing in baking store
• 2004-Feb: Myanmar NLP Research Team - Myanmar typing sequence - PDF | Excel
• 2004-Feb: Myanmar NLP Research Team - Myanmar spelling possibilitiy analysis - PDF | Excel
• 2004-Feb: Myanmar NLP Research Team - Myanmar keyboard layouts analysis
• 2004-Jan: Martin Hosken and Tun Tun Lwin - Representation Myanmar in the Unicode: details and examples
• 2003-Oct: U Ngwe Tun - How to apply Myanmar Unicode
• 2003-Oct: U Tun Tun Lwin - ZWJ Script Encoding Model
• 2003: Myanmar Language Comssion - Myanmar Romanisation
• 2003: Alan Wood - Myanmar Unicode test web page
• 2000: Unicode 4, chapter-10
• 2003-Jun: Michael Everson - Khamti character set with Myanmar encoding
• 2003-Jun: Michael Everson - Phake character set with Myanmar encoding
• 2003-Jan-10: Martin Hosken - Padauk keyboard layout
• 2003-Sep: proposed Myanmar character set
• 2003-Jul-04: Xenotype - Burmese Unicode Sample for Mac OS 10
• 2003-May-19: U Zaw Win Aung - ver.1.01 Encoding Myanmar Language to Unicode
• 2003-May-19: U Zaw Win Aung ver1.02 - Encoding Myanmar Language to Unicode
• 2001-Sept-07: Zaw Htut - all possible Myanmar syllables 
• 2001-Aug-26: Zaw Htut - MCSA seminar handout. Pros and Cons of Unicode for Myanmar language.
• 2001-July-14: Dr Aung Maw - Implementation of Myanmar script on Windows - Power Point1 | Power Point 2 | PDF|
• 2001-Jul-09: U Pyone Maung Maung - Work Program for Standardization of Myanmar Character Codes - Power Point | PDF
• 1999: Unicode 5 Universal Multiple Octet Coded Character Set
• 1999: Unicode - Final draft amendment for Myanmar
• 1999-June:Proposal for extension of myanmar code set
• 1998-Oct: Unicode 3, Myanmar block U+1000 to U+109F
• 1998-Oct: Unicode 3, chapter-9 , Unicode specifications on Myanmar language
• 1998-Oct: Unicode Consortium - acknowledgement to Myanmar experts | Unicode 3, Acknowledgement
• 1998-Oct: Unicode Standard, version 3 book cover
• 1998-Jul-25: U Zaw Htut - Vocabulary Comparison between Burmese, Devnagari, and Sinhalese
• 1998-Jul-24: U Zaw Htut - Response to Myanmar Proposal N1729 (Expert Contribution to Unicode Consortium)
  • Corrected forms and derived forms of Myanmar glyphs
  • Development steps of Myanmar glyphs 
  • Myanmar sorting method
• 1998-May-14: U Zaw Htut - Letter to Michael Everson
• 1998-May-12: U Zaw Htut - Letter to Michael Everson
• 1998-Apr-04: Michael Everson - Graphic representation of today's BMP of ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode
• 1998-Mar-18: Unicode Consotium working group N1729
• 1998: Zaw Htut - Win Myanmar System, Ver.4 beta
• 1998: Universal Multiple Octet Coded Character Set
• 1998: Michael Everson - amendment proposal to Unicode Consortium
• 1997-Oct-12: Lee Colins - proposal to Unicode Consortium
• 1996: Michael Everson - proposal to Unicode Consortium
• 1995-Mar-12: Michael Everson - Names of Burmese characters: comment on Unicode Technical Report
• 1995: Zaw Htut - Win Myanmar Spelling Checker demo
• 1993: Douglas Cooper - burmese
• 1993: Myanmar Language Commission, Myanmar-English dictionary 1994 - 11-page History of Myanmar Alphabet
• 1992-March-13: Zaw Htut - WinMyanmar Keyboard Layout
• 1992-Nov-03: Andy Daniels - Unicode technical report on Burmese, Khamer, Ethiopian
• 1993: Myanmar Language Commission - Myanmar script development, step by step
• 1970: Common Myanmar typewriter keyboard layout
• 1200: Prince Yarza Konmar (Raja Kumer) - Myazedi stone inscription (first written Myanmar script)

Other Myanmar Unicode Related Sites

• http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/
• Myazedi Myanmar Unicode Information Center
• Myanmar page on SIL.org
• Myanmar font samples - Win Myanmar Systems
• Myanmar font samples - salika.com
• 20040408: Old use styles of Myanmar script
• 20040408: Reference books for studying Myanmar

Other Unicode related Resources

• 2002: Creating and supporting OpenType fonts for the Lao script
  [http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/laoot]
• 2000-Aung-31: Ken Whistler - Unicode technical report #17: character encoding model [http://unicode.org/reports/tr17/]
• 1999: Unicode 3.0.1 presentation
• 1998 - IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages
• 1998: Thai Unicode encoding table
• Global Accessibility
• Indic Shaping Engine
• Multi-Lingual
• Thai Sort
• Unicode Script
• Unicode Script 2
• Developing multilanguage applications for Windows NT

Call for Comments and Response

We welcome any comments and responses from all experts of this community who knows or who are intersted in Myanmar language and its processing. We will publish your comments here in this section.

Myanmar Unicode / NLP Research Center
1R1, Myanmar Info-Tech, 11052, Yangon, Myanmar
Internet: http://mcf.org.mm/unicode
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