Updated Khmer Spelling Checker for Firefox

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The SBBIC Khmer Spelling Checker for Firefox has now been updated to support the latest version of Firefox. You can download it here: Download “Khmer Spelling Checker for Firefox” – Downloaded 5905 times – 144.66 KB
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Vote Now! Help Improve Automatic Khmer Word-Breaking

It’s been a number of years since the first automatic word-breaking code for Khmer was introduced in the ICU (International Components for Unicode) code that is used on many platforms today. But there is updated and vastly improved code waiting to be added to the ICU code and we need your help to vote to help get the code integrated (ICU is used by Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe and more!). Will you help us? First, go here: ICU Bug Tracker Then follow these steps – Step 1: Step 2: Step 3:   And that’s it! Thank you for your support!
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Khmerism Lyheng Keyboard

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Click on the links below in order to install the correct version of this keyboard on your system. For Phones: – Android => https://goo.gl/nNaCY3 – iOS => https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/khmerism/id1148794719?ls=1&mt=8 For Computers: – Window => https://goo.gl/GLyN4a – Mac OS => https://goo.gl/XOzNOA
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How to Add Khmer Unicode Subtitles to a Video

Adding a subtitle in Khmer on a video can be frustrating because the default font of most systems is ugly and difficult to read. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to hardcode or embed Khmer Unicode subtitles into a video. You will need these free tools: http://amara.org/ https://mpc-hc.org/ and http://www.videohelp.com/software/XviD4PSP (5.10.346 or higher – not the stand alone version).
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Fix Khmer Zero-Width-Space Issue in WordPress

With WordPress 4.3.x a bug was reintroduced that stripped all zero-width spaces (U+200B) from the text. This obviously caused a problem for Khmer text as we use zero-width spaces to specify word-breaks for both spell checking and line-breaking. So, especially on Android smart-phones, Khmer text was very difficult to read on WordPress blogs. But thanks to លោក ទេព សុវិចិត្រ and the volunteers at WordPress and TinyMCE we have a patch that fixes the issue. You can download it below (unzip the file and place the .js in your wordpress installation directory /wp-includes/js/tinymce ): Download “tinymce.min_.js.zip” tinymce.min_.js.zip – Downloaded 2551 times…
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Beautiful Khmer Web Fonts

Khmer Unicode is great – until you get on a site that hasn’t used any Khmer Unicode Web Fonts and the system default Khmer font is used. Unfortunately, most system default Khmer fonts are horrible looking (especially the Khmer font supplied with Windows). So, what can you do about it as a webmaster? Plenty! If you run a Khmer only website – the solution is much easier than if you have a multilingual site. Some browsers (like Firefox) allow you to set a font for a specific language – but others do not. So plain Khmer Unicode text looks like…
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Have you ever wondered how to use ជើង «ដ» and ជើង «ត»​ in Khmer?

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Khmer Subscript
Dr. ឃឹន សុខ wrote in his book «វេយ្យាករណ៍ភាសាខ្មែរ» on page 61 as follows: ជើង ដ និង ជើង ត គេប្រើសញ្ញាតែមួយគឺ   ្ដ ។ គេអាចដឹងថាសញ្ញានេះ ជាជើង ដ ឬជាជើង ត ដោយសារយើងស្គាល់ពាក្យនោះ។ ស្ដ សញ្ញា ្ដ ជាជើង ដ គេអាន [ស្ដ]។ ស្តឹក សញ្ញា ្ត ជាជើង ត គេអាន [ស្ត]។ នៅក្នុងពាក្យសរសេរជាព្យាង្គតម្រួត គេសន្មតថា បើសញ្ញា   ្ដ  នៅក្រោម ណ សញ្ញានេះជាជើង ដ ហើយបើនៅក្រោម ន គឺជាជើង ត។ បណ្ដឹង អាន [បន់ + ដឹង]។ បន្តឹង អាន [បន់ + តឹង]។
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New Automatic Line-Breaker for Khmer in LibreOffice

Much thanks to SIL and all their hard work on improving (and fixing) the code for LibreOffice allowing it to correctly and automatically break Khmer words without the user having to insert zero-width spaces manually. If you are interested in trying it out yourself visit the nightly builds for LibreOffice here and download the version for your operating system: LibreOffice Nightly Builds You can also access the source code of the automatic word breaker for Khmer at GitHub here. The source is based on frequency dictionaries of Khmer words with probability counts as well as a long list of names…
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