From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2008 - 14:39:06 CDT
Um, no, Mac OS X does *not* ship with any fonts capable of rendering
Mongolian text, at least not properly. The fonts you mention have
glyphs for the characters in the Mongolian block, but they lack the
shaping information needed for Mongolian text layout.
On Oct 8, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Tom wrote:
> Mac OS X ships with five (technically four, as one is just a
> different weight) fonts capable of rendering Mongolian text:
> STFangsong; STHeiti (Light and Regular); STKaiti; and STSong.
>
> Although they come with the system, I would assume there are
> restrictions regarding their distribution, since the copyright is
> accredited to a Chinese font foundry by the name of Changzhou
> SinoType Technology Co., Ltd.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Tom
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> On 8 Oct 2008, at 17:38, Richard Ishida wrote:
>
>> I'm really struggling to find any sample text in the Mongolian
>> script in Unicode on the Web. Does anyone have / know of any text
>> they can point me towards / send to me, that I'd be able to use for
>> examples.
>>
>> In particular, IE8beta now supports writing-mode:tb-lr, so I want
>> to include some real Mongolian script in the tests I am currently
>> putting together for vertical script support.
>>
>> Also any suggestions for useful fonts would be welcome. Of the
>> three listed at http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Mongolian.html
>> only Code2000 seems to be doing a reasonable job.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> RI
>>
>> ============
>> Richard Ishida
>> Internationalization Lead
>> W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/International/
>> http://rishida.net/
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