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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: tibetan
From:       Ričardas_Čepas <rch () richard ! eu ! org>
Date:       2001-03-22 6:48:33
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On Wed Mar 21 20:12:44 2001 +0100 Juraj Bednar wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   I've been thinking about that tibetan translation, but I have to jump
> over basic things:
> 
>    - where could I search for free tibetan fonts (should I find that in
>      Unicode fonts? Are there some available)?
>    - is Tibetan in Unicode maps?

        It is in Unicode, block 0F00; 0FBF

>    - Is there a possibility for X keyboard to directly use unicode
>      mapping? Tibetan is a character based language (i.e. use one letter
>      for one sound, like most european languages), not like chineese,
>      but I believe they don't have iso-8859-x charset and I don't want
>      to create one, I would like to use only unicode. Is this possible?

        Do you mean that it doesn't need combining characters?
        You can use new XKB (see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html)
extention when you use Unicode value + some higher bits set instead
of symbolic name in XKB keymap file, for example 0x1000105 instead of aogonek.
Or just U0105 in newer XFree.
        This works with Qt 2.3.0/KDE 2.1.1/XFree 4.0.99 as far as have tried
now.  Well, almost - you need to patch kxkb to work with non-latin1 encodings,
and UTF-8 locale encoding selection is somehow broken - I have set it manually
to utf-8 in ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals [Locale] Charset.  And you need
to patch qt to print something :(  Hopefully all this will get fixed sometime.

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      ☻ Ričardas Čepas ☺
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