Talk:Tibetan script

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Contents 1 question on tibetan script 2 Displaying Tibetan Script 3 Problem in Safari 4 Problem with Firefox (Windows) 5 requests for Tibetan script to be added to articles

[edit] question on tibetan script

isn't there the lower case letters as well. the printing tibetan script is called uchen, i forgot what the cursive or normal handwriting script is called.

here's a picture of a handwritten script: [1]

(u know its pretty hard to write uchen, its very boxy and sharp, used for printing and larger banners, but the other script is used for writing letters and notes).

i haven't been able to find a font for it.

Wow, I've never seen Tibetan in hand-writing. Thanks for the picture. And to answer your question: No, there are no lower case letters in Tibetan. As far as I know, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Armenian are the only alphabets with upper and lower case distinction. Oh and... please sign your comments. — N-true 01:04, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

The handwritten form of Tibetan script is called Ume (pronounced oo-mey). It has various levels of shorthand, which will greatly vary the length and appearance of the script according to the level in which it is condensed. 21:17, 4 November 2006 (GMT)

There are many different kinds of block, cursive & semi-cursive Tibetan scripts. The classification of Tibetan scripts into only Ucen (dbu-can) "headed" & Ume (dbu-med) "headless" is way too simplistic. There are more refined classifications of the various types of Tibetan script.

Chris Fynn 20:06, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

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In the first row of the consonants, the Romanization n¯a is supposed to be n with a macron, but I can't find such a Unicode. If you can find it, please replace it. --Menchi 08:50 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)

After only 15 month, it's fixed. It is U+0304 (̄). It's a combining macron and you write it after the "n" and hopefully it gets rendered O.K. Works for me (W2K, Mozilla 1.7). See also Combining Diacritial Marks. -- Pjacobi 19:26, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Despite the claims of the article, it doesn't appear to be using the Wylie system. I am editing the article to bring it into conformity with the system it says it's using. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 20:05, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Displaying Tibetan Script

It took me a long time to figure out how to display Tibetan script on Wiki pages in my browser. The info page linked from the Indic script warning tag does not talk about Tibetan. After downloading several fonts, I found the best one to be one mentioned in the external links at the bottom of the article. It is open type and has a GNU license, from The Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library. Works for several systems, but I'm not sure about Mac.

Could we replace with Indic Script warning tag with something that would help users know what they need to read the script in this article, and others on Wiki with Tibetan script? Or, maybe add Tibetan to the Wikipedia:Enabling complex text support for Indic scripts page? --Dorje Shedrubn 22:15, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Works fine for Mac. Trondtr 21:17, 24 June 2006 (UTC).

Tibetan has been added to the Wikipedia:Enabling complex text support for Indic scripts page. However no info for Mac. Chris Fynn 19:52, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problem in Safari

I'm having trouble with Tibetan. The actual characters are rendered just fine, but all the diacritic marks are shifted, so that rather than being on top of the characters, they're beside them. Is there a quick way to fix this, or what's going on? Thanks for any help. -- Hidoshi 02:20, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with Firefox (Windows)

There seems to be something on this page (maybe an included template?) which causes most (but not all) Tibetan characters to render as boxes in Firefox on Windows - though I have no problem viewing other pages containing Tibetan script with this browser and have proper fonts, Uniscribe, etc. installed.

No problems with IE. Chris Fynn 19:49, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] requests for Tibetan script to be added to articles

Is there a place we may ask for Tibetan script to be added to particular articles? Chris 08:30, 7 December 2006 (UTC)