From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 18 2008 - 07:49:01 CDT
2008/6/17 Dagvadorj Galbadrakh <dagvadorj@gmail.com>:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch13.pdf#G18211 is indeed a
> fantastic document. Those who prepared this document (I believe he/she is in
> the Unicode developing team) is a lot capable of Mongolian.
Thank you. I am responsible for the section on Mongolian, so if you
have any specific questions about how Unicode Mongolian works please
feel free to contact me off-list.
> As far as I understand from some documents including
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=UniscribeVersions
> variation/form convergence is not available until Windows Vista i.e., it is
> not available on Windows XP and Office 2003 etc.
That is correct. Although theoretically Mongolian could work correctly
on Windows XP with a smart Mongolian font and a dumb rendering engine,
in practice the cleverness involved in rendering Mongolian correctly
is shared between the rendering engine (Uniscribe) and the font, and
only in Vista do you have both a version of Uniscribe that supports
Mongolian and a functional Mongolian font ("Mongolian Baiti").
Andrew
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