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This is based off 30 minutes of naive research; if someone knows better, please correct me. (No better way to get information than to say something wrong on the
by scarmig 6y ago
This is based off 30 minutes of naive research; if someone knows better, please correct me. (No better way to get information than to say something wrong on the Internet.)
Most of the time, major or more sophisticated apps will just use Cyrillic (in Mongolia) or be written in Mandarin (in Inner Mongolia, CN). There are, however, web pages in the traditional script, which you can look at to get a sense of how a UI layout for a vertical script might work [0][1][2]. I also found a website with a full list, with many broken links [3].
From an encoding perspective, Unicode historically hasn't meshed well with Mongolian script, because of a surfeit of homographs. From what I can gather, Menksoft supports the most widely used alternative encoding method, which isn't Unicode-compatible. This apparently makes searching and indexing traditional Mongolian pages hard.
[0] http://khumuunbichig.montsame.mn/index.php?home http://khumuunbichig.montsame.mn/index.php?home
[1] http://mongol.people.com.cn/ http://mongol.people.com.cn/
[2] http://www.nmg.xinhuanet.com/mg/ http://www.nmg.xinhuanet.com/mg/
[3] http://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writmongol/websitesinmongolbichig.html http://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writmongol/websitesinmongolbi...
- Symbiote 6y agoThis site seems to use Unicode, unlike your first link. It's a bit disappointing that the British Library was unable to write the titles in their catalogue in Mongolian script. "ᠮᠣᠩ᠋ᠭᠣᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ ᠶᠡᠷᠦᠩᠬᠡᠢᠢᠯᠡᠭᠴᠢ ᠬ" https://president.mn/mng/ https://president.mn/mng/
- gumby 5y agoThe author mentions/complains about that late in the essay.