Khmer Transliteration (reply to query)

[Doug Cooper]

The scanned text of the ALA-LC Romanization Tables for Khmer is at:

  http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/khmer.pdf

  If you intend to develop transliterated Khmer texts that can be
easily searched and reused by other software applications, the
symbols used for romanization (like dotted characters) should
be selected from an Indic transliteration font and not simply
cobbled together from mixes of diacritics/IPA extensions that
'look' right.  There's an extensive discussion of Indic transliteration
(and pointers to fonts) at:

  http://www.sanskritweb.de/fonts.htm

  While we're on the subject, Khmer Unicode fonts can be found at:

  http://www.bauhahnm.clara.net/Khmer/KhmerOS.ttf
  http://www.cfcambodge.org/khmerfont/Kh-SrokK.ttf

  And a confusing point:  to render properly under WinXP, the application
that uses the Khmer font should include a version of usp10.dll (which
handles font rendering) numbered 1.471.4030 or higher.  This goes in
the application's home directory (apparently there's no easy way to
update the XP system's version of this file).  In other words, to use
Khmer Unicode with Netscape, put this file in the netscp.exe directory:

  http://khmertech.org/unicode/usp10.dll

Khmer Unicode installation is discussed in more detail at:

 http://www.khmeros.info/khmeros_workingsoft.html
 http://www.khmertech.org/

  Doug


----- Original Message -----
From: "navako" <Navako at metta.lk>
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Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:59 AM
Subject: Khmer Transliteration (reply to query)


>
> I received a question from someone on the list as to a well-working system
> of Khmer transliteration.  At that time I could only refer to the one
found
> in the appendix to Huffman & Proum's _Cambodian System of Writing_ (now
> available as a free etext) --but, four months later, I have stumbled upon
> the set of references below.  I hope this will be more useful, and I hope
> this will reach the author of the original question, as I did not keep a
> copy of his e-mail.
> E. Mazard
>  ----------------------
> 9.1 American Library Association - Library of Congress
> An excellent Khmer script transliteration scheme is described on pages
96-98
> in the book ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for
> Non-Roman Scripts/approved by the Library of Congress and the American
> Library Association; tables compiled and edited by Randall K. Barry.
Library
> of Congress: Cataloging Distribution Service, 1997 Edition. ISBN
> 0-8444-0940-5 (pbk. only). (Dewey: P226.A4 1997 or LOC card number
> 97-012740). This is largely reversible (except for ambiguity with
> independent vowels/dependent vowels and base characters/their matching
> subscripts). In addition to the Latin alphabet it uses a scheme of upper
and
> lower diacritics and a few spacing signs. Maurice is presently working on
a
> Graphite font which has an optional feature to display Khmer Unicode text
in
> this transliteration scheme. The mapping of Unicode characters to the US
> MARC encoding can be found at:
> http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/specifications/speccharlatin.html
>
> Source:
> http://www.bauhahnm.clara.net/Khmer/Welcome.html#KHMERTRANSLITERATION