1. Download the khmer Unicode fonts (http://www.khmeros.info/drupal/?q=en/download/fonts)
2. Add the Khmer Unicode keyboard (system preferences-international-input menu)
3. Install X11 (a graphical unix interface) – this comes with OSX Tiger on the set-up disk. If they have an earlier OSX system, they can download it off the Apple website (but it’s 41MB) You run X11 by going to applications-utilities-X11 and need to have it running it before you install openoffice
4. Install OpenOffice (downloadable from their website – 130MB!!!)
5. Install “fondue” if you want other non-ttf fonts besides the system fonts that come with open office (http://fondu.sourceforge.net/)
6. Otherwise you can skip 4 and just copy the KhmerOS fonts to the openoffice font folder (ctrl-click on open office – show package contents – contents – openoffice.org2.0 – share – fonts)
7. Now it should work!
Special thanks to David Narita for these instructions!
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I was wondering about the exact file you downloaded. I tried to download this, but the zip file was a .exe file for Windows. Doesn’t it need to be a dmg file for a Mac?
You can download all of them here: https://sbbic.org/lang/en-us/2011/01/06/download-all-khmer-unicode-fonts
Does that mean that every written document will have to be written on OpenOffice or could the fonts work on a regular Microsoft Word document on my Mac?
Hi Steph,
The fonts can work in other programs, but you will have to do it by trial and error. I’ve had more success with the fonts with the prefix “KH” than other Khmer Unicode fonts on a Mac, but I don’t own a Mac, so that is limited experience. Let us know what you find!
-Nathan
Typing in Khmer Unicode in Word 2011 on a Macintosh (OS10.6), if I type a consonant with any jeung followed by Shift-O, I get a double letter. This is only relative to Word 2011. I type the same in Mac/Pages and it works fine. Any one know a solution?
Kmer
Hello there,
I have some problem of typing khmer on mac. I already got the khmer unicode but some of khmer alphabet I could not type them out. it’s different from Window, on mac’s keyboard we don’t have ALT GR which is (ធ្លាស់). can you tell me which button to do that?
Lo
I’m still having trouble with my font download. I have the Khmer fonts in the “Font Book” of my Mac, but for some reason I can’t use the fonts to type in the Word program. Whenever I select a Khmer font, it only types out Roman letters…Help!
Hello! You’ll need to install a Khmer keyboard so you can type in Khmer Unicode. Here is the link for one: https://sbbic.org/2012/07/30/sbbic-khmer-unicode-keyboard-for-mac-os-x/