Template:MongolUnicode/doc

Usage

This template is intended for use with text written in the Unicode "Mongolian" script. Note, the Unicode "Mongolian" script is a unification of the Mongolian, Todo, Manchu and Sibe scripts, and so this template can be used for text written in various different languages, including varieties of Mongolian (Classical Mongolian, Halh [khk] and Peripheral Mongolian [mvf]), as well as Manchu [mnc] and Sibe [sjo].

• 1st parameter is the Mongolian (Todo, Manchu, Sibe) text to display
• 2nd parameter is optional; if it is 'h' then the text is laid out horizontally; if it is any other value (e.g. 'v'), or if it is omitted then the text is laid out vertically (if the browser supports vertical layout)

Examples

• {{MongolUnicode|ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌}} produces: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌
• {{MongolUnicode|ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌|v}} produces: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌
• {{MongolUnicode|ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌|h}} produces: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌
• {{MongolUnicode|ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ<br/>ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌|v}} produces: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ
  ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌

Issues

Currently only IE8 and above and Chrome version 17 and later support rendering the text in top-to-bottom, left-to-right format. The browsers Firefox, Opera and Safari will render the text as left-to-right, top-to-bottom. See also

• http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145503

For Webkit and Firefox nightlies, it seems

-webkit-writing-mode:vertical-lr;-moz-writing-mode:vertical-lr;

works, but there are so many rendering issues, that they are probably better off not being enabled yet.

For MediaWiki issues regardring this: bugzilla:9436

Non-Font

When Daicing font set to be the EUDC,

• ZERO WIDTH JOINER at the head-place does not work.
• NIRUGU does not work.
• NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE does not work.

Font issues

Currently our advice for Traditional Mongolian test is MQT > MW > MB > MU > MS

And our advice forManchu text is MQT = DC > MB

• MQT=Menksoft's Menk Qagan Tig, is a font for Hudum, Todo, Manchu and Sibe, with full Ali-Gali support;
• MW=Almas's Mongolian White, is a font for Hudum and Todo, with some Ali-Gali support;
• MB=Founder-Microsoft's Mongolian Baiti, is a font for Hudum, Todo, Manchu and Sibe, with some Ali-Gali support;
• MU=Monotype Drawing Office's Mongol Usug, is a font for Hudum and Todo;
• MS=Myatav Erdenechimeg's MongolianScript, is a font for Hudum only;
• DW=Daicing White, is a font for Manchu, Sibe and Daur.

1. Little issues are found in MQT;
2. Final k/g ATR- rendering issues are found in all fonts except MQT and MS, but Erdenechimeg said her font was an early draft and does not met current Unicode standards;
3. MU does not follow Unicode Standardized Variants (by ad hoc rendering FVS1~3) in many cases;
4. MB 5.00 does not match Unicode Standard, please upgrade it to MB 5.01 (KB929763);
5. Under certain situations ‍ᠶ‍ is incorrectly rendered as ‍ᠢ‍ or ᠵ‍ in MB 5.01 and MU 2.37;
6. ᡓ‍ is incorrectly rendered as ᠴ‍ in MU 2.37;
7. MB 5.01 does not render ᡯᡳ correctly (we may use ᡯᡳ᠌ instead in MB).