Re: About new character set and keyboard driver for XFree86

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 11:32, Batbileg wrote:
> Dear Fellows,
> 
> Today, I have joined the XFree8/Fonts forum in order to develop the few 
> things that required in order to increase the use of Linux in my home 
> country.
> 
> I am from Mongolia and mongolian language characters and keyboard driver 
> is not available in stadard Linux package, ether its not available in MS 
> Windows. However, due to exetnsive use of MS products, some companies 
> developed free support software of fonts and keyboard drivers under MS 
> and moreover Windows2000 and XP now has standrad support for our 
> language. However, we don't have it under linux, whcih very frastred me. 
> Now, I am gone to study at master degree, thus I have plenty of spare 
> time to develop something. Thus, I hope you guys can help me to develop 
> few fonts with English and Mongolian(on extended part) and keyboard 
> driver, that I can proudly use my linux box in any cases and encourage 
> others to use it.
> 
> Please, help me and give me some hint where and how shall I start.

Are you talking about Mongolian written in Cyrllic or the traditional
Mongolian script?

For the traditional Mongolian script, my understanding is that it
is always written vertically, which poses a problem for computer
interfaces: I don't see how you can take a user interface designed
for horizontal writing and reuse it for a language written vertically.

(Chinese and Japanese are frequently written vertically in print, but in
general computer use are written horizontally.)

How does this work under Windows?

Thanks,
                                                        Owen