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Pre-Unicode computerized Khmer scripts - known collectively as "legacy" fonts - required the typist to press a complex series of shortcut keystrokes to create a single Khmer character. Legacy fonts added up to more than 30 different ways of encoding the font for Khmer script.
There are some links in the External Links section that explain Khmer fonts and offer free downloads of the fonts and related software. A word of caution, however: Khmer Unicode is still under development and even when installed correctly, the appearance of certain characters are very erratic and unpredictable and some are still just plain wrong.
Khmer is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Khmer (Cambodian) language. For details of the characters, see Khmer alphabet – Unicode . Block
Khmer script (Khmer: អក្សរខ្មែរ, Âksâr Khmêr [ʔaksɑː kʰmae]) [3] is an abugida (alphasyllabary) script used to write the Khmer language, the official language of Cambodia. It is also used to write Pali in the Buddhist liturgy of Cambodia and Thailand .
The Khom script (Thai: อักษรขอม, romanized: akson khom, or later Thai: อักษรขอมไทย, romanized: akson khom thai; Lao: ອັກສອນຂອມ, romanized: Aksone Khom; Khmer: អក្សរខម, romanized: âksâr khâm) is a Brahmic script and a variant of the Khmer script used in Thailand and Laos, [2] which is used to write Pali, Sanskrit, Khmer ...
Saber Rastikardar (December 11, 1986 – November 13, 2023) was an Iranian programmer, font developer, type designer, and an active member of the FOSS community. Vazirmatn, [1] [2] [3] which was his most important font, was added to the Google Fonts collection in 2022, and the same font was used in the desktop version of Telegram messenger to display Persian and Arabic characters.
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