Dear Jia Yanmin,
Does you e-mail mean that you are planning to use standard Unicode
Tibetan, and not the private area implementation? This would be very
good news.
OpenOffice supports the Tibetan script internally, so not many
modifications of the source are necessary to add Tibetan. We worked on
ICU and this last year, together with Pema Geyleg (Bhutan) and Karunakar
(India).
The language is already defined in the basic files, as bo_CN, with code 451.
You need to provide two types of information:
1) A locale file. You can start with a copy of the Dzongkha one, and
modify whatever is different.
http://l10n.openoffice.org/source/browse/*checkout*/l10n/i18npool/source/localedata/data/dz_BT.xml
You can find information about locale files in:
http://www.khmeros.info/tools/openoffice_locale_.htm
2) What fonts will you be using? The default font names are included in
OpenOffice. Any special font for user interfaces? or for normal text in
writer? (you can name different fonts for different issues).
For more information, please look at:
http://www.khmeros.info/tools/localization_of_openoffice_2.0.html
Do not hesitate to ask if you have any more questions.
Regards,
Javier
yanmin wrote:
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
------------------------------------------------------------------------
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.7/710 - Release Date: 3/4/2007 1:58 PM
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
