Browser and Font Issues
You need browser version of at least IE 9.0, Chrome 4.0, Firefox 3.5, Safari 3.1, or Opera 10.0 to view Burmese font on this website properly.
Does your browser meet the requirement?
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
In earlier days, users need to have the font downloaded first. In addition, browser options must be changed. Fortunately, technology has much improved. For the web page, I am using CSS3 @font-face rule. You do not need to install any font to view this website as the font will be automatically loaded to the browser if your machine does not have it.
Burmese Script is the later addition to the original lessons. I have used a different type of unicode-compliant font in the past. I am now using Pyidaungsu font, which is the type used by the Myanmar government after they migrated from Zawgyi. This font is pre-installed in new computers and laptops sold in Myanmar, and it has become a default type of font.
Known Issues with fonts
If you have already pre-installed some other Burmese fonts that are not Unicode-compliant, you may see incorrect display of unicode-compliant fonts. You have the options of changing your default font in your browser setting, or un-install other fonts, or use an another machine without the Burmese font in it. To quote Wikipedia under the sub-heading "Why not Zawgyi":
Those who have Zawgyi or pseudo-Unicode fonts in their computers find their computers may display incorrect text and might affect other Unicode-supported applications.
— Wikipedia —
Font Display Test
The following passage is from the play "Water Seller" | ရေသည်ပြဇာတ် | yay2-dtheare2 pya1-zut by famous Burmese poet, playwright and author U Pone Nya | ဦးပုည | u3 pone2 nya1 during Konbaung Dynasty. If the font display in brown color matches the image below in blue color, the font is working correctly.
ဝါးကွဲထမ်းပိုး၊ ဆိုင်းပေါင်ကျိုးနှင့် ပုဆိုးညစ်တေ၊ ယောင်ထန်းစေ့မှုတ်၊
ခေါင်းမွေးစုတ်တဲ့ ကျုပ်ဖအေငယ်။ ရေကိုရောင်းစား၊ မောင့်စွမ်းအားနှင့်
စီးပွား တစ်နှစ်ဘယ်လောက်များ ဖြစ်ပါတုံး။ လက်ကပ်ခြေကပ်၊ ပိုမိုမြတ်လို့
အဖတ်တင် အိမ်တွင်ထုပ်ရ ကျုပ်မောင်လှမှာ ငွေစဘယ်လောက်များသလဲ။
