Re: About new character set and keyboard driver for XFree86

Owen Taylor wrote:

> 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
>
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Actually, I am talking about Cyrillic fonts which differ from Russian 
and others a bit... Yes, there is a big problem with implementation of 
Mongolian writings...Thanks