Speaking of Khmer fonts, in the past, computer users and learners may be familiar with Font Limon, which has been introduced in Khmer typing,
which is difficult and time consuming to type. On the contrary, in the last few years after Unicode fonts have been developed, users have been impressed by this great achievement, which is easy to use and takes less time to complete. Use from the use of old fonts. Computer users in Cambodia do know and use Unicode fonts, but do not know who created them. No?
Childhood and education
The creator of the Unicode font is a Cambodian Cambodian under the name Danh Hong, born in Bak Liv province (Khmer called Pol Leav). . He has a father named Danh Pea, a farmer, and now his father is over 82 years old but still farming. His mother died when Danh Hong was eight months old during the US-Vietnam War. From then on, the burden of caring for the baby, the entire upbringing, fell on his father. Danh Hong's family has nine members, while he is the fifth of seven children, including four boys.
Danh Hong was born in 1972 into a Khmer Krom peasant family in Pol Leav province of Kampuchea Krom or present-day southern Vietnam. Despite the epidemic, his father played a vital role in raising his lost son. Will be studied.
As a child, Danh Hong studied at Ba Heang Primary School. Every day, he spends about two kilometers walking to school. From home. Mr. Danh Hong is a very diligent student and he is also a good student. After graduating from primary school, he went on to study at Ba Heang Secondary School, and then went on to study at Lang Yoeur High School, and in 1991 he passed the exam. Graduated from high school.
Post-Bankruptcy Study
After graduating from Baccalaureate in 1991, Mr. Danh Hong went on to study for a bachelor's degree at the University of Law in Prey Nokor. Named Ho Chi Minh City. Leaving his hometown to pursue this level of education because the Vietnamese government at that time provided a one-year scholarship for the preparation course for the bachelor's degree exam. Continued in 1992. In fact, he was an excellent student in mathematics, but because of his love of law, he also studied this field.
Talented people still have opportunities for state-awarded scholarships, not just preparatory years. If the student has the ability and ability to pass the exam, he / she will receive a full scholarship for five years (before studying for a bachelor's degree in Vietnam for 5 years) . In that, the list of candidates who passed the exam also has the name of Mr. Danh Hong.
Mr. Danh Hong graduated with a bachelor's degree in law in 1997 and passed the entrance exam for a legal profession in a Vietnamese state institution. Named the Government Ethnic and Mountainous Commission (equivalent to the Ministry of Khmer District) in Prek Russey (formerly known as) Now it is called Koeng Ther.
Interested in a career but still in love with the law
When I was a first year law student in 1992, a Vietnamese company called CINOTEC, a company that made Khmer fonts, sold them locally. Khmer. Since then, he has also been interested in template design, but at the time, nothing has come to fruition, just trying to find out more. While still loving the same legal skills.
When teaching as a student, Danh Hong always takes his free time to teach his children who live nearby. The university they are studying to cover the expenses.
After graduating in 1997, Danh Hong passed the entrance exam for a legal position in a Vietnamese state institution called the National Commission for Ethnic Affairs. The government's mountainous area (equivalent to the Khmer District Ministry) in Prek Russey, now known as Koeng Ther.
At the same time, seeing the ability of Mr. Danh Hong, the university also contacted him to make a Vietnamese-Khmer dictionary because Khmer students We went to study in Vietnam in large numbers, which led the Vietnamese Ministry of Education to consider setting up a multinational dictionary. To this day, the dictionary used by his four-member team is still used by the Vietnamese Ministry of Education.
After 3 years as a civil servant in Vietnam, he applied to work in the country Cambodia in the field of font design and development at the American Center for Khmer Studies Siem Reap for 3 years from 2000 to 2003. Working there, he lived in a rented house. While working in Siem Reap, he met a Spanish man with a master's degree in A computer scientist, and he agreed to create a Khmer OS project proposed to Open Forum in 2003, but it was not until 2004 that the organization decided to accept.
From 2005 to 2010, Danh Hong worked as a Vietnamese-language reporter for By April 2010, he had moved on to work as a Home Designer. On the other hand, Danh Hong recalled that while studying in college, he went to work as a laborer. At the ship repair shop to earn extra money in addition to the money sent by the family.
In addition, he was contacted by the university to make a Vietnamese-Khmer dictionary because the students We Cambodians go to study in Vietnam in large numbers, which led the Vietnamese Ministry of Education to think Draw in the preparation of this multinational dictionary.
Danh Hong never thought of making this font for the national standard, he made the font Unicode because you want to solve all the complicated problems easily Back. He spent many years making this Unicode font. Do some research on the Internet. It takes almost half a year to make one type of font. 2002 also yielded the desired fruit. When the font was done and there was no media to help him, he put In the Internet for people to download and use.
For now, he wants Cambodian children to know how to use more Unicode fonts for convenience In various jobs. This is a great achievement for children to remember at his great dedication to Cambodia so that Cambodians can use Khmer fonts more easily and quickly.
The founder of Khmer font, originally from Khmer in Kampuchea Krom, firmly believes that in the future, our Khmer language will have a name and be widely used around the world. This is the hope that motivated him to spend all his physical and mental energy to decide to have Font Khmer Unicode installed to this day. He promised the Cambodian people that he would create something new to promote Khmer literature, especially electronic devices such as tablets, mobile phones or other devices.
