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Monk creates a new Tibetan Unicode font
- soldermont001 14y agoOSX 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=321 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.html 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.
- angry-hacker 14y agoThe monk is using his font also in his website: http://www.lobsangmonlam.org/ http://www.lobsangmonlam.org/
- rat87 14y agoThat page is all boxes for me(no fonts).
- sillysaurus 14y agoWorks for me! (Win 7 x64 Ultimate; no extra language packs installed, just English. Impressive that it Just Works™...) http://i.imgur.com/E0XYi.jpg http://i.imgur.com/E0XYi.jpg
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- cutie 14y agoTashi delek - བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས
- leke 14y agoNga Leon yin. That and tashi delek is pretty much all I know.
- amarcus 14y agoOn 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.
- bcbrown 14y agoI thought I was the only person who did that.
- dsirijus 14y agoPlenty of us around.
- lukeholder 14y agoi'm a highlight text kinda OCD guy.
- zheng 14y agoMy 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.
- quaunaut 14y agoPrimarily, 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.
- gurkendoktor 14y agoIf 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.
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- sirk390 14y agoOh, I misread that as a "Tibetan Monk" create a new "Unicode font". That would have been more interesting.
- Zenst 14y agoI 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.
- eru 14y agoTo 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!"
- Zenst 14y agothank 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.