[HarfBuzz] Mongolian shaper

Nagi natsag2000 at googlemail.com
Wed May 26 23:25:04 PDT 2010


( This is my reattempt to send it, because first email is held until the list
moderator can review it for approval. This time, I am using gmane :) )

Dear all,

as Behdad suggested me to write this mail here, I am happy to inform you that
Mongolian Script rendered in Pango. 

Here are some links and infos about Mongolian script and development:

* Links
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1800.pdf
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/mongolot/features.htm
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Test/Mongolian.html
http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2007/06/secret-life-of-variation-selectors.html
for looking at the "Mongolian Variation Sequences" part
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_%28punctuation%29  for looking at "MVS and
Narrow No-Break Spaces"
http://babelstone.blogspot.com/search/label/Mongolian%20and%20Manchu
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.html

* current status
You can get latest patch from bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619753

* OTF font
There is only one official otf/ttf font supported in Windows Vista/7
http://www.eaglefonts.com/mongolian-baiti-ttf-2204.htm  click on the "Free Font
Download" link to download

* screenshot
Here is a screenshot from our blog page.
http://mongolian-it.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_8575.html
using the text from http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Test/Mongolian.html

Thank you.

Best regards
nagi




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