Traditional Mongolian display

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Traditional Mongolian display

Hi. I am using MacBook Pro Mountain Lion 10.8.5 and I am experiencing a problem with the display of traditional Mongolian characters. I have about a dozen of fonts installed, but the script is always displayed as separate characters, not as words (except for PDFs). I don't really know what could be done for it to be displayed correctly: I tried different browsers, different fonts. My PC does the same work perfectly fine, with the same fonts installed. One would think that Unicode should be displayed correctly on any device. Can it be helped?

Posted on Jul 12, 2014 2:36 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 12, 2014 3:07 AM in response to edler

edler wrote:

One would think that Unicode should be displayed correctly on any device.

For some scripts it takes more than just Unicode. Word for Mac cannot even display connected Arabic or any Indic script correctly.

Classic Mongolian is one of the hardest to do right. See

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2013/03/reading-and-typing-traditional.html

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edler Author

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Jul 12, 2014 3:38 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thank you for advice. I did all the steps that were mentioned, but it didn't help. Do I need to deinstall other fonts (open type, etc.) first maybe?

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 12, 2014 4:18 AM in response to edler

What document or webpage exactly are you trying to display? You do need to try to force it to use the Mac font. Deactivating all the others could be tedious (many Chinese fonts contain Mongolian).

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 12, 2014 4:52 AM in response to edler

PS Does the traditional mongolian on this page display correctly?

http://sibagu.com/mongolia/phasianidae.html#phasianinae

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