Comments on Jigtenmig - Classical Tibetan Language Blog: Tibetan Unicode Fonts and this Blog

update: The new version of Firefox (3) - including...

2008-08-10T20:14:00.000-07:00

update: The new version of Firefox (3) - including Iceweasel seem to render the stacked letters better - even complex ones like: སིདྡྷི
Even the title bar is properly rendered. This makes everything much more accessible.

S.Law (I hope M Sandvik won't object): make sure you have Tibetan Unicode fonts installed on your computer. Other than that WinXP seems to do things pretty automatically. (Some fonts to consider can be found at http://tinyurl.com/5oy59q and http://tinyurl.com/66d4av among others - do a Google search).
If you have Unicode fonts installed, then look around for encoding (try Help search) for ensuring that UTF-8 is enabled.

I'm using Win XP - with the Firefox browser and th...

2008-06-05T16:49:00.000-07:00

I'm using Win XP - with the Firefox browser and there's something necessary to seeing the unicode that I evidently don't have. All that I see is a lot of question marks - ?????? like that. Any suggestions? (If I use my Opera browser instead I get vertical lines instead of question marks.)

I find that the unicode just doesn't stack up.Have...

2008-05-10T08:38:00.000-07:00

I find that the unicode just doesn't stack up.

Have you found a way around problems with stacking letters in unicode?

I mean things like: རྒ་ྱ or སྤྱ་ or རྒྱ་ and even རྣ་ that just don't look right.

I find that a text in Tibetan Machine Web will render perfectly when viewed using the Opera browser.

I don't have any technical knowledge of these things, but the fact that Opera can do what Firefox and IE cannot should be an indication of what could be done.

In the mean time it's Opera time for me. (Maybe some Apple products are available for those with Macs, but I use Firefox [Iceweasel, actually in Linux] and Opera in both Windows and Linux).