To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. -- George Orwell


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Reflections

A Burmese student running after his death To the Future


Burmese unicode converter

I thought I would share this Perl script I have written to convert Burmese unicode from version 4.1 to 5.1. If any of you find it useful, please feel free to use it with GPL license. If you find any bugs, please let me know.

Download it here.

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Once upon a time at the Rangoon University

Dr. Kyaw Thet gave a lecture at the once-prestigious Rangoon University. The clip was taken from 1957 CBS Edward Murrow's "See It Now" program on "Burma, Buddhism, and Neutrality".


Burmese-English dictionary

I have been busy working with the visual input system for our dictionaries. Check out the beta version for Burmese.

Go to http://burmese.sealang.net

Click on the keyboard icon (on your left panel) as shown in the following picture.

Click on the input characters so you can see the prediction. Please wait for a fraction of a second (because of the server delay) after you click on the characters. You will see the predicted Burmese words based on the dictionary order as in the following picture.

Warning about fonts


Ludu Daw Amar's Funeral

Ko Hla has pictures of Ludu Daw Amar's funeral.
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