Prince Ka Naung - Unify Converter Engine

Introduction

Burmese code conversion engine for various Burmese fonts encoded text data.

Prince Ka Naung is a brand name chosen and which has community effort and building tool for the sake of better Myanmar computing and language technology aspect, as opensource/free software. Each developer may join in as each own prefer way of implementation and setup development environment (SDE).

Features

• Converter Engine defined that it can handle all kind of possible coded font text data to and from conversion.

Font & Standard

Mainly between the following type of fonts.

• ASCII / Unicode 4.1~5.0 / Unicode 5.1 / UTN11-1 / UTN11-2

The following Burmese fonts will be use:

• WinInnwa, CE Fonts, Wwin_Burmese, Gandamar Fonts, King Fonts, Metrix, Academy, Zawgyi, UniBurma, Myazedi, Myanmar3, PadaukOT, Parabaik, UniMM

If you would like to suggest any burmese font(s) variant, please do let us know. We will add in our research and development.

Discussions & Related Articles

• Development Discussion
• Conceptual Analysis & Design Model
• Fontconv Discussion
• QT Related Discussion
• Unicode and Code Conversion

Howto and Guide

• Using KaNaung CSharp Program On Window

UI Screenshots

Mac OS X - pyQT

Window - C#

Window - C++

Setup Development Environment (SDE)

• Currently, we are under going of different platforms, cross GUI toolkits, and system. We hope to make Prince Ka Naung product to be natively support system. You may present your preferred way of SDE and approaches to port in Prince Ka Naung project.

ToDO List

• C# version of KaNaung Converter for Windows with .Net Framework 2.0 (started)

Licensing and Cost

This software will be released under a free software license, the GPL v 2. Feel free to copy and redistribute this software.

Authors, Role and Responsibility

• Mark, Soe Min - <Retire to Unknown Date> did Code decision, Logic & maintain (original representative from Burglish System)
• Victor, San Kho Lin - Font, Unicode, Logic & maintain (representative from UniBurma-UniMM Project Foundation)
• Aung Kyaw (47) Htet - Code commit, Python & NLP (representative from BCP and IDRO System)
• Seth N. Hetu - Framework (representative from WaitZar System)
• Bashroan - Assembly & C++ Version Font Converter
• YourNameWillBeHere

Recruitment

• This is opensource and free software project. We are 24/7/365 opening for project recruitment. Please drop in any of current member or this project headquarter discussion place at MMGeek forum.
• Project offline communication is through MMGeek froum.
• Project online/chat is schedule based Gtalk conference chat.
• Email, mail listing will be used if project members are growing in future.