benloks / lix-wa

Page for typing in Sgaw Karen
https://benloks.github.io/lix-wa/
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Problem with using the Karen font on Facebook #2

Open Younamoehtoo opened 9 months ago

Younamoehtoo commented 9 months ago

Hello sir, First of all, thank you very much for developing this platform and software for us. It is very useful for our Karen people to communicate in our own language. However, there are two problems with me in using this. Some days, I texted and copied the text on your lixwa website and pasted in on Facebook. It worked very well. People around the world can read it. But then in another day, I texted and copied the text on your website like before, and then paste it on Facebook. This time, the karen characters displayed incorrecty. So my question is what was the problem? Do you have any suggestion for us to do?

It is really weird. If I copied the old text from the one that already posted on Facebook (the one that worked well), then Facebook displaced it correctly. However, when I typed the new text and copy/paste it from your website to Facebook, it stopped working. Then may be in one or two days, it will work again. Any solution? Please help.

Note - this only happened on phone. And not only phone. Everyone's phone. If we read the text on computer, we can read it. It also doesn't work in Facebook messenger.

benloks commented 7 months ago

@Younamoehtoo I'm glad that this little site is useful for you (at least on most days)!

Fonts work differently on mobile apps vs. on websites, and if your phone does not have a Unicode font installed that supports Myanmar/Karen characters, it may not be able to display these characters properly. If the text you pasted looks correct on the web but not on your mobile phone, I think that is what is happening. I would recommend asking in the Myanmar Unicode Area Facebook group - the people there can probably help figure out if you need a font on your phone. And if that doesn't work, let me know.