the burmese alphabet ရ isn't included in the new PCs

According to my unofficial research, 'Myanmar/Burmese language' Fonts are represented in macOS11.x.

And these may vary by region; the font book is user accessible. (Asia page shows Myanmar fonts.)

• Fonts included with macOS Big Sur - Apple Support (en-Asia page shows Myanmar fonts.)

https://support.apple.com/en-asia/HT211240

"The following fonts ^ (listed in above) are installed and enabled automatically by macOS

Big Sur. Additional fonts are available for download or as needed by your document or app.

New or updated fonts may be added over time. This list is current as of November 2020."

• Burmese language - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_language

• Languages of Myanmar - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Myanmar

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Burma++Myanmar+language+differences&ia=web

• Fonts included with macOS Big Sur - Apple Support (en-US: unsure if Myanmar, included?)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211240

Learn more: ~ You can use Font Book to install and remove fonts,

validate & resolve duplicate fonts, and restore the standard fonts that

came with Big Sur. For more information about Font Book, choose

'Font Book Help' from the Help menu in Font Book.

Big Sur installs fonts in these folders on your Mac:

• The Library folder in your System folder: /System/Library/Fonts. These

fonts are required by your Mac and can't be disabled in Font Book.

• The Library folder at the top level of your hard drive: /Library/Fonts.

..Tom:

Should there be a 'keyboard preference' setting so Keyboard Viewer shows

more options? At least on my older Macs that was the case. Wonder if some

settings need changed in theirs, & expose more features. More input sources.

~ That'd be good! (Oh, you've included link to exact support articles.)

mawi272 wrote:

the thing is the alphabet isn't included on the keyboard,

I don't understand what you are talking about. Apple has provided 2 Unicode Burmese/myanmar keyboards for years already. To see which key does what, use Keyboard viewer

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-the-keyboard-viewer-on-mac-mchlp1015/11.0/mac/11.0

..mawi272:

Perhaps this link discovered at bottom of other linked page, could be useful.

Support pages can offer different contents; by selection of macOS version.

• Type in another language on your Mac with input sources - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/type-language-mac-input-sources-mchlp1406/11.0/mac/11.0

Quite often Tom Gewecke knows quite a lot

across macOS stuff; like a genius!💡🤖🌿🌻

Thanks for the pictures!

Your shift key does not do anything. Is it broken on all keyboards or just for Myanmar? Is it broken on all apps? Your keyboard viewer should look like mine below, which shows the shift key chraracters

mawi272 wrote:

The burmese alphabet ရ isn't included in the new PCs

Why exactly do you think this? It should be on the r key of the Myanmar Qwerty layout ရ and on Shift 7 of the Myanmar layout ရ

Does that not work for you?

mawi272 wrote:

Plus Shift 7 is not ' on both Myanmar layout and english one.

I don't understand what you are referring to. Of course the English and Myanmar layouts are different. English shift 7 produces &. Apple Myanmar shift 7 should produce ရ. What does it produce on your machine?

mawi272 wrote:

yes ,I'm using the Keymagic keyboard .

If that keyboard does not work right, you need to contact the people who made it.

Can you please verify for me that when you use the Myanmar or Myanmar Qwerty input sources which Apple provides and use the Unicode fonts that Apple provides, that you do see all the characters, including ရ? I see them all, and I have not heard about anyone else who does not.

PS I apologize. I just now realized that you are using a Japanese JIS keyboard, which much different than the ANSI and ISO keyboards used in the US and Europe.

It appears that the JIS version of Apple's Myanmar input source is in fact broken and does not have ရ (and maybe other stuff?)

In order to make it work, you would have to create a custom keyboard with

https://software.sil.org/ukelele/

But Apple's Myanmar Qwerty JIS version does have ရ on the r key. Whether it is missing something else I don't know.

Please test the Myanmar QWERTY layout to see if it works correctly.

have you installed any non Apple Myanmar fonts, like zawgyi?