From Viet Nam News | 07-06-2009
Khmer is used more regularly in Cambodia so therefore software supporting it was invented there earlier than in Viet Nam. The Cambodian software was never easy to use, he says. “Khmer has 33 consonants and 40 vowels, but there are only 26 letters on a keyboard.
“The Khmer language consists of 80 typefaces. It’s difficult to remember, so we often check the code table to make sure we aren’t making mistakes.”
When Thi experimented with CTK-2005, he realised it was superior to the old software programmes. It allowed users to type quickly, because it was built with Khmer grammar in mind.
That meant that CTK-2005 could predict the word the user wanted to type after the first few letters.
Thi and other technicians at media and communications agencies use Khuon’s CTK-2005 software fluently. They feel confident and proud when using the Vietnamese application to service Vietnamese ethnic peoples, who speak and write in Khmer.
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