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Picture of the page in action.

I have just upgraded the Burmese picker as follows:

Rearranged characters The Myanmar3 font expects multiple combining characters to be entered in the order described in the Unicode 5.1 Standard for correct display. The panel of combining characters has been arranged so that you can easily remember what that order was. Characters to the left precede those to the right, characters higher up precede those lower down.

In addition to that, I have rearranged all the character positions so that it is easier to locate the various parts of a syllable as you type.

I also added some combinations of characters that make up multi-part vowels and the kinzi with a single click.

I have also moved some of the less common characters to an ‘advanced’ area to the right which can be opened and closed by clicking on the arrow-head icon.

New highlighting As you mouse over a character the picker will show you other characters that are visually similar (particularly useful for those not very familiar with the script). This new version shows the more likely confusable characters with a blue outline, and other similar characters with orange. This is useful given that many Myanmar characters look quite similar.

As always, you can turn off this feature or disable it in the URI you use to call the picker.

Font grid view Shows characters in Unicode order, using whatever font is specified in the Font list or Custom font input fields. This allows comparison of fonts (especially useful in IE, which shows if a glyph is missing from a font).

You can start up directly in either of the available views by appending the following to your URI: ?view=, followed by one of, respectively, alphabet or fontgrid.

Enjoy.