Thread: Microsoft Word fonts for Cambodian-Khmer

Hi,

What is the best font for khmer? Or at least the one that is "universally" used. I was using the DaunPenh Regular font, recommended by a native speaker. This font works pretty well with Gujarati too.
What your thoughts on that?

Yes, I use DaunPenh also. It seems to work the best. However, as a second option arial unicode works as well. It's a universal font.

You can try Khmer UI which is pretty good too.

If you are not looking for a font with a specific weight or stroke, you can you DaunPenh or Arial Unicode, that are the most popular fonts.

Hi Nabyl, please remember that Word does not embed fonts in the document. This means that if you don´t have the font installed in your system, Word will change the font with a substitute.
So you should use the most popular font you can find to avoid undesired font replacements

You mean that if a translator sends me his work, using a font I don't have installed in my pc, it will automatically open with another substitute font, is it right? Would I get at least a warning from Word?

You are completely right. Word will automatically change the missing font with a substitute without even showing a warning. That´s a bit dangerous because you have to have eye-for-the-detail to assume that the layout is not looking OK. Or you have to be familiarized with typography and recognize the font family used.

You can also go to File / Options / Advanced and then click in the Font substitution button to check if the fonts used are available or not. This is the only way to check it

Hello,
I am using these 3 fonts and I see some characters in my Word document. I've marked them in the image below. I don't see them when I turn off the show all characters option and when I create a PDF. Is it OK to ignore them? Is it OK?

Khmer.PNG

These symbols are blank spaces in fact; you wouldn't have it in the document but there's no matter if so, since they are visible or printable. You could replace them with ordinary spaces if you wish anyway