<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Stephen,<br><br></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">1) As indicated you can set the Tai Ahom font as default Unicode font for Firefox, at the moment I am working on a greasemonkey script for Cham and tai Viet scripts that i hope will be extensible and giver finer control<br>
<font><br></font></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>For Chrome, there is an extension that can be installed</font><span style="color:rgb(48,57,66);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none"></span><span style="color:rgb(48,57,66);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none"><font> called Advanced Font Settings, which allows you to set a default font per script or Unicode block, this should be suitable for teh Tai Ahom font<br>
<br></font></span></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(48,57,66);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none"><font>2) Android is much more complicated, there are a number of multilingual keyboard packages available, and some developers are willing to add new languages, if you wnat to follow this path i can put you in touch with someone.<br>
<br></font></span></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(48,57,66);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none"><font>An alternative is to use Keyman Touch on Android, if you want to go down this path i can create the layout for you.<br>
<br></font></span></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(48,57,66);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none"><font>The third approach is to create a custom langauge specific keyboard layout. I have a colleague in Cambodia who has done this for Khmer and Cham, and I can follow up on that.<br>
<br></font></span></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(48,57,66);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none"><font>Fonts are the most problematic part fo the exercise. First you need a version of Android that supports the correct rendering of Tai Ahom, if there are rendering issues. Assuming you have aversion of Android taht can render Tai Ahom, you will need to root the phone and install the font, not a procedure I would recommend for the average user.<br>
<br></font></span></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(48,57,66);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none"><font>Some Samsung Galaxy models and other phones allow you to change the default display font, and there are apps like SP Fontomizer and iFont that assist in installing the font on such phones.</font></span></span><br>
<br>Alternatively it is possible to construct a font addon to install a font inside Firefox for Android, This will allow the font to be used as a fallback font for Android even if you can't use it anywhere else on the system. At the moment I am refactoring my font addons for Firefox for Android<br>
<br></div><div>The final alternative is to limit input and display to a particular app and then cut and past between other apps, although in this final approach you can only see the text in your app and not other apps.<br>
<br></div><div>Andrew<br></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(48,57,66);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none"><font></font></span></span><div>
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I have recently made a Tai Ahom Unicode font (with the help of Martin Hosken of SIL) and Last week uploaded it for use by community members in India on facebook and in emails.<br>
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Several questions have come up which I can't answer subsequent to this.<br>
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1) Some people can get the font to work in Mozilla (by making the Ahom Unicode font the default font) but not on Chrome, which it seems people in India use. Does anyone know how to get it to work on Chrome<br>
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2) People are asking me how to get the font to work on an android phone, which many people there use but I do not yet. Does anyone know how to install a font into an Android font, as well as a keyboard, so that it can be used? The keyboard I have made is done
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