A Wacky Idea...

[Matt Thompson]

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 15:35, Olivier wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 23:30, Matt Thompson wrote:
> > Well, Mongolian is written top-to-bottom (and then left-to-right). 
> > Sure, all the fonts I've seen are left-to-right (or RtL), but if
> > Unicode/X/pango could do it, this would be useful for them.  
> 
> Writing top to bottom is very different from a left to right text being
> rotated vertically.

Oh, I know, I was just saying who it could be useful for. ;)  

It's even worse for traditional Mongolian since it's a cursive
language.  Each letter has an initial, medial, and final (and solitary
for vowels) form.  It's languages like this and Arabic that I so admire
the Unicode/i18n people.

That said, the few instances of printed Mongolian I've seen is rotated
since the font isn't vertical.

Matt
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