Title: Using Burmese fonts in WordPress
Last modified: September 1, 2018

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# Using Burmese fonts in WordPress

 *  [waywrdsmeansgns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waywrdsmeansgns/)
 * (@waywrdsmeansgns)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-burmese-fonts-in-wordpress/)
 * I am trying to write in Burmese on one of my pages. I have Burmese fonts downloaded
   on my computer, so the font looks fine in my word processor. However, when i 
   copy and paste the text into the “Page” on wordpress, it doesn’t render properly.
   any ideas how to fix this?
 * I am having this issue on both Chrome and Firefox. I don’t want to change every
   font on the site to be Burmese, but only want to use some Burmese text, when 
   necessary. I could use any number of Burmese fonts, including Padauk or Zawgyi-
   One.
 * Any suggestions or solutions would be much appreciated!

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 *  [Rachna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rachna90/)
 * (@rachna90)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-burmese-fonts-in-wordpress/#post-10646768)
 * Hi there,
 * You can simply refer to link below, It has different steps/possibilities which
   can guide you. [https://codex.wordpress.org/Multilingual_WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/Multilingual_WordPress).
 * Hope this helps.
 *  Thread Starter [waywrdsmeansgns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waywrdsmeansgns/)
 * (@waywrdsmeansgns)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-burmese-fonts-in-wordpress/#post-10647565)
 * Hi [@rachna90](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rachna90/) thanks for sharing
   this. i’m not sure it helps though – my concern isn’t the language, it’s specifically
   how the Myanmar fonts render. I am using Polylang currently
 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-burmese-fonts-in-wordpress/#post-10649107)
 * Just like using a Google font for the front end of your site, you have to load
   the font definition and refer to it in order for the font to be used. The editor
   is not looking at the fonts on your computer, so it does not pick it up. And 
   the theme is not loading that font on the front end or referring to it, so it
   will not be used.
 * To use it in some posts, you can make a special function in your theme or a plugin,
   to load the font on certain pages and refer to the font in the CSS. Or you can
   load it in all pages, and only refer to it on the ones that use it.
 * To load it, you will need to have a font kit which consists of the font in 3 
   or 4 formats and the CSS to refer to them correctly. Take the font file you have
   over to Font Squirrel and upload it. It will generate the kit for you to download.
   Put the font files in a folder on your site, such as wp-content/uploads/fonts
   or if you have a child theme, put them under that. Then you change the CSS that
   came in the kit to point to the folder you put them in. Then put that CSS into
   your child theme style.css or in the Customizer under Additional CSS. This can
   be confusing since the `url()` in CSS is relative to the stylesheet, so if you
   use the complete URL to the font files, that is best. But this is only good for
   the front end. To get the font to show in the editor, you will need some PHP 
   to call `add_editor_style()` with that CSS to not only load the font, but to 
   apply it. The application part is to determine the part of the content that you
   want that font used for. You can mark it in the content with a class name like
   this:
 *     ```
       <div class="burmese-font">
       <p>several paragraphs of Burmese stuff</p>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * and your CSS would have
    `.burmese-font { font-family: "Burmese Font Name", "
   fallback font","other fallback"; }`

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-burmese-fonts-in-wordpress/#post-10649107)
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