Dear Javier,

Hi Yanmin,
>
> This would be very complicated, as sometimes English and Tibetan will be
> mixed in the same message (for example when you use an acronim in English).
> It is necessary that your system (user interface font) uses a proportional
> font. You can use non-proportional fonts for word-processing (it is not very
> good, because you have to be changing sizes when you change script, and then
> it is very difficult to edit multilingual documents), but usually most user
> interfaces are not prepared for non-proportional fonts, and I do not think
> that they will make the changes now, as they would take a huge effort, and
> the tendency now for all complex scripts now is to use proportional fonts.
>
> If I remember well, Bhutan has proportional opens source fonts that could
> be used. I don't know if their font styles agree with tibetan taste. Chris
> Fynn would be the person to talk to.


Yes, I have introduced the Tibetan font "Jomolhari" which supports Tibetan
Unicode standard as well as extend-A character set standard which includes
hundreds of pre-composed Tibetan characters.

Regards,
Yanmin

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