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Monk creates a new Tibetan Unicode font

tibetangeeks.com

116 pointsluckystrike20 comments

OSX actually has been shipping for a while now with a decent Tibetan font.

Unfortunately Windows' Tibetan font ("Microsoft Himalaya") is in a disappointing state.

See the mashed up letters on row 3, letters 3 and 4 from the left: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/family.aspx?FID=32...

The link to purchase the font links to a 3rd party they commissioned the font from, but they no longer seem to sell it.

If you have an OSX and a Windows computer you can compare the font support between them here: http://www.unicode.org/charts-6.1.0beta/script/chart_Tibetan...

Symbols 0FC5 - 0FC8 are especially poor and almost unrecognizable.

Many letters are missing from 0F75 - 0FBC, which are used for Sanskrit transliteration into Tibetan.

The monk is using his font also in his website: http://www.lobsangmonlam.org/

That page is all boxes for me(no fonts).

Works for me! (Win 7 x64 Ultimate; no extra language packs installed, just English. Impressive that it Just Works™...) http://i.imgur.com/E0XYi.jpg

On a completely related manner, why do they fire off an event everytime a word is double clicked. I read online articles by clicking around constantly.

I thought I was the only person who did that.

Plenty of us around.

i'm a highlight text kinda OCD guy.

My officemate does this as well. What is the reasoning? Does it help you focus on the content? Do you always click on the next word to be read? I'm curious as to what could cause this behavior to emerge.

Primarily, I do it as a means of staving off nerves, and also 'keeping my place' in case I look away. I'm getting contacted constantly and distracted even more constantly, so being able to see a hilight of the line I last read saves me a lot of time fairly often.

If this helps your analysis... If I stop selecting text, I will start to play around with things on my desk. I am not overly caffeinated or full of sugar, and my legs are at rest. It just feels "natural" to be doing something with my hands all day. But this is just my own analysis.

Get some modelling clay?

That's what I suspected. For those of us who work with computers for most of our waking hours, our bodies get use to focusing on what we are clicking on. Thanks for your feedback.

I keep clicking on words, selecting text, shaking my legs or moving/playing with my fingers all the time. Is that a psychiatric condition by any chance?

I love the footer on that website:

"This site built with Open Source: html/css, php, apache, linux, vim, air, water. and the awesome Lenovo ThinkPad — made in , working for — thank you, China! "

Open source air and water - brilliant.

To be more helpful with the quote:

"This site built with Open Source: html/css, php, apache, linux, vim, air, water. and the awesome Lenovo ThinkPad — made in [Flag of PR China], working for [flag of Tibet(?)] — thank you, China!"

thank you, i'd forgot the flags and it does make things more scannable. I think your right - least i assumed it was the Tibeten flag as well.

Tashi delek - བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས

Nga Leon yin. That and tashi delek is pretty much all I know.

Oh, I misread that as a "Tibetan Monk" create a new "Unicode font". That would have been more interesting.

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