Hi all, My name is Jia Yanmin, a Ph.D. of Open System & Chinese Information Processing Center, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences. I'm going to launch a localization project for Tibetan.
Funded by 863 Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China, we developed an office suite supporting Tibetan, based on OpenOffice.org in the last 3 years. Many exclusive features of Tibetan, such as linebeaking behavior, is supported correctly. But this system use China ongoing Tibetan character set standard, not Unicode, to encoding Tibetan text. Now both Uniscribe in Vista and ICU include CTL (Complex Text LayoutEngine) for Tibetan. And so it's good time to develop a real Tibetan OpenOffice.org. The Tibetan script is used in serval countries and regions throughout the Himalayas. Aside from China Tibet itself, the script is used in Ladakh, Nepal, and northern areas of India bordering Tibet where large Tibetan-speaking populations now reside. The Tibetan script is also used in Bhutan to write Dzongkha, the official language of that country. Our work mainly focus on Tibetan used in Tibet. The necessary information adding Tibetan to OpenOffice.org is as following: Language ISO Code: bo Country ISO Code: CN Microsoft locale ID: 0451(Hex) I'm not sure if the above information is sufficient. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Jia Yanmin
