This is because Arial Unicode MS does not have any of the OpenType
information that would be necessary for the shaping in the Tibetan script. I
do not know of any fonts that currently have this information, but I assume
it is only a matter of time before there are some.
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/
> From: Robin Sackmann [mailto:sackmann@zedat.fu-berlin.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 4:24 AM
> To: info@unicode.org
> Subject: Unicode Tibetan
>
>
> Dear Sirs,
>
> when I try to use the Tibetan characters contained in the Arial Unicode
> MS
> font in Microsoft Word 2002, the vowel signs do not appear above (or
> below)
> the base character, as they should, but in the next character position.
>
> Example: the base character "BA" (0F56) cannot be combined with the
> vowel
> sign "O" (0F7C) in the proper way. (The result should actually be a
> single
> glyph representing the syllable "BO".)
>
> I would be grateful for any information on how this problem can be
> solved.
>
> With many thanks and best regards,
>
> Robin Sackmann
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