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Windows plugin (using some form of key remapping script) which enables input of Burmese syllables using an N-gram romanized input model. is an ASP.NET server control that lets the user enter Burmese character text phonetically or as in typewriter layout. The
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Burmese sites are split between these two and other proprietary encoding models, which makes proper viewing of Burmese script even harder.
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