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Monk creates a new Tibetan Unicode font

116 pointsby luckystrikealmost 13 years ago

5 comments

soldermont001almost 13 years ago
OSX actually has been shipping for a while now with a decent Tibetan font.<p>Unfortunately Windows' Tibetan font ("Microsoft Himalaya") is in a disappointing state.<p>See the mashed up letters on row 3, letters 3 and 4 from the left: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/family.aspx?FID=321" rel="nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/family.aspx?FID=32...</a><p>The link to purchase the font links to a 3rd party they commissioned the font from, but they no longer seem to sell it.<p>If you have an OSX and a Windows computer you can compare the font support between them here: <a href="http://www.unicode.org/charts-6.1.0beta/script/chart_Tibetan.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.unicode.org/charts-6.1.0beta/script/chart_Tibetan...</a><p>Symbols 0FC5 - 0FC8 are especially poor and almost unrecognizable.<p>Many letters are missing from 0F75 - 0FBC, which are used for Sanskrit transliteration into Tibetan.
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amarcusalmost 13 years ago
On a completely related manner, why do they fire off an event everytime a word is double clicked. I read online articles by clicking around constantly.
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Zenstalmost 13 years ago
I love the footer on that website:<p>"This site built with Open Source: html/css, php, apache, linux, vim, air, water. and the awesome Lenovo ThinkPad — made in , working for — thank you, China! "<p>Open source air and water - brilliant.
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cutiealmost 13 years ago
Tashi delek - བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས
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sirk390almost 13 years ago
Oh, I misread that as a "Tibetan Monk" create a new "Unicode font". That would have been more interesting.