Tibetan Encoding Standards - Revision history

Pema108 at 02:57, 27 June 2006

2006-06-27T02:57:44Z

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	Various Tibetan fonts use different encoding schemes with multiple characters to represent Tibetan letters. These are not interchangeable, if you use for example [[TCC]] fonts you can't switch to [[Nitartha-Sambhota]] fonts, and vice versa.		Various Tibetan fonts use different encoding schemes with multiple characters to represent Tibetan letters. These are not interchangeable, if you use for example [[TCC]] fonts you can't switch to [[Nitartha-Sambhota]] fonts, and vice versa.

	Long term Unicode Tibetan will become the general standard for Tibetan letters, but this has not yet happened due to lack of good Unicode Tibetan font sets.		Long term Unicode Tibetan will become the general standard for Tibetan letters, but this has not yet happened due to lack of good Unicode Tibetan font sets. The Tibetan Code Block Chart is downloadable from the Unicode consortium [http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0F00.pdf here]

	Note that the encoding schemes are different from the pronunciation rules. There are very few standards concerning how to spell out pronunciation, of which the [[ACIP Standards for Simplified Tibetan]] is one standard of many.		Note that the encoding schemes are different from the pronunciation rules. There are very few standards concerning how to spell out pronunciation, of which the [[ACIP Standards for Simplified Tibetan]] is one standard of many.

Kent Sandvik: Added THDL Extended Wylie.

2005-12-18T04:05:47Z

Added THDL Extended Wylie.

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	~~'''Please expand this page''' by pressing the '''edit''' tab above or consulting~~ [[~~Sample Buddhist Teacher Info & Instructions~~]] ~~for more details~~
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			The Tibetan encoding systems are needed for writing Tibetan fonts on a computer -- or long time ago on a typewriter. The future for Tibetan encoding is Unicode, but until then there's a need for various encoding systems.

	[[~~Category:Literature~~]]		The most classical one is [[Wylie Encoding]], created by Professor Wylie. This is used in Tibetan books and similar places for encoding Tibetan words using plain ASCII. As an example, dharma spelled out in Wylie is <code>chos</code>.
	[[~~Category:Tantric Literature~~]]
	[[~~Category:Indian Literature~~]]		A variation of this is [[ACIP Encoding]] that introduced a standard for Sanskrit Tibetan letters.
	[[~~Category:Nyingma Literature~~]]
			Another encoding scheme is the [[THDL Extended Wylie]] from [[THDL]].

			Various Tibetan fonts use different encoding schemes with multiple characters to represent Tibetan letters. These are not interchangeable, if you use for example [[TCC]] fonts you can't switch to [[Nitartha-Sambhota]] fonts, and vice versa.

			Long term Unicode Tibetan will become the general standard for Tibetan letters, but this has not yet happened due to lack of good Unicode Tibetan font sets.

			Note that the encoding schemes are different from the pronunciation rules. There are very few standards concerning how to spell out pronunciation, of which the [[ACIP Standards for Simplified Tibetan]] is one standard of many.

Cortland at 05:08, 15 December 2005

2005-12-15T05:08:49Z

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			'''Please expand this page''' by pressing the '''edit''' tab above or consulting [[Sample Buddhist Teacher Info & Instructions]] for more details
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	The Tibetan encoding systems are needed for writing Tibetan fonts on a computer -- or long time ago on a typewriter. The future for Tibetan encoding is Unicode, but until then there's a need for various encoding systems.

	~~The most classical one is~~ [[~~Wylie Encoding~~]]~~, created by Professor Wylie. This is used in Tibetan books and similar places for encoding Tibetan words using plain ASCII. As an example, dharma spelled out in Wylie is <code>chos</code>.~~		[[Category:Literature]]
			[[Category:Tantric Literature]]
	~~A variation of this is~~ [[~~ACIP Encoding~~]] ~~that introduced a standard for Sanskrit Tibetan letters.~~		[[Category:Indian Literature]]
			[[Category:Nyingma Literature]]
	~~Various Tibetan fonts use different encoding schemes with multiple characters to represent Tibetan letters. These are not interchangeable, if you use for example~~ [[~~TCC~~]] ~~fonts you can't switch to [[Nitartha-Sambhota]] fonts, and vice versa.~~

	~~Long term Unicode Tibetan will become the general standard for Tibetan letters, but this has not yet happened due to lack of good Unicode Tibetan font sets.~~

	~~Note that the encoding schemes are different from the pronunciation rules. There are very few standards concerning how to spell out pronunciation, of which the~~ [[~~ACIP Standards for Simplified Tibetan~~]] ~~is one standard of many.~~

Kent Sandvik: Added resources category

2005-12-15T05:05:15Z

Added resources category

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			[[Category:Resources]]

	The Tibetan encoding systems are needed for writing Tibetan fonts on a computer -- or long time ago on a typewriter. The future for Tibetan encoding is Unicode, but until then there's a need for various encoding systems.		The Tibetan encoding systems are needed for writing Tibetan fonts on a computer -- or long time ago on a typewriter. The future for Tibetan encoding is Unicode, but until then there's a need for various encoding systems.

Kent Sandvik: Basic info about Tibetan encoding systems

2005-12-15T05:04:45Z

Basic info about Tibetan encoding systems

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The Tibetan encoding systems are needed for writing Tibetan fonts on a computer -- or long time ago on a typewriter. The future for Tibetan encoding is Unicode, but until then there's a need for various encoding systems.

The most classical one is [[Wylie Encoding]], created by Professor Wylie. This is used in Tibetan books and similar places for encoding Tibetan words using plain ASCII. As an example, dharma spelled out in Wylie is <code>chos</code>.

A variation of this is [[ACIP Encoding]] that introduced a standard for Sanskrit Tibetan letters.

Various Tibetan fonts use different encoding schemes with multiple characters to represent Tibetan letters. These are not interchangeable, if you use for example [[TCC]] fonts you can't switch to [[Nitartha-Sambhota]] fonts, and vice versa.

Long term Unicode Tibetan will become the general standard for Tibetan letters, but this has not yet happened due to lack of good Unicode Tibetan font sets.

Note that the encoding schemes are different from the pronunciation rules. There are very few standards concerning how to spell out pronunciation, of which the [[ACIP Standards for Simplified Tibetan]] is one standard of many.