RE: Mongolian script samples

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Fri Oct 10 2008 - 22:19:18 CDT

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    On Windows Vista, the font "Mongolian Baiti" can be used to display Mongolian text.

    Peter

    From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Richard Ishida
    Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 12:51 PM
    To: 'Tom'
    Cc: unicode@unicode.org
    Subject: RE: Mongolian script samples

    Thanks Tom. I'm on Windows, so I'm not sure if that will help me, but good to know all the same.

    I'm particularly hoping there's some free (or very inexpensive) font out there that I can used for platform-independent testing.

    Cheers,
    RI

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    Internationalization Lead
    W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

    http://www.w3.org/International/
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    From: Tom [mailto:applemeister@f2s.com]
    Sent: 08 October 2008 20:01
    To: Richard Ishida
    Cc: unicode@unicode.org
    Subject: Re: Mongolian script samples

    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

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    Richard Ishida
    Internationalization Lead
    W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

    http://www.w3.org/International/
    http://rishida.net/

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