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Comment Re:Lack of font? Design your own! (Score 1) 470

Actually, the country of Bhutan, whose language is very similar to Tibetan, has already localized a distro to Dzongkha (Bhutanese dialect of Tibetan). It would not be unreasonable for the TGIE to modify that and localize to their own dialect. Many people have already made some efforts in this direction.

Comment Re:Lack of font? Design your own! (Score 5, Informative) 470

Actually, There are about five free, unicode fonts that I know of for Tibetan and Dzongkha. Both Windows and Linux support these fonts, and many traditional texts have been typed in unicode. (OSX has a small problem, from what I've heard).

There are two produced by Chris Fynn TibetanMachineUnicode from THDL, and Jomolhari. Both UChen fonts.

CTRC produces four fonts (1 UChen and three Ume): CTRC-Uchen, CTRC-Tsumachu, CTRC-Betsu and CTRC-Drutsa

Additionally, Nithartha has made a proprietary unicode complying font called Sambhota.

There are also several legacy font systems which use several font files with prestacked characters and input programs.

This link http://www.aerifal.cx/~dalias/bodyig/fonts/ should give plenty more examples.

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