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Mongolian Layout Requirements
https://www.w3.org/International/mlreq/
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Encoding model needs to be simplified #34

Open r12a opened 4 years ago

r12a commented 4 years ago

The Unicode encoding model for Mongolian is notoriously problematic. Differentiation of code points by phonetics rather than by glyph shape leads to many spelling mistakes by authors, as the glyphs for many code points or positional forms are identical.

However, more immediate problems arise due to the lack of standardisation and the current complexity surrounding the writing of alternate glyph forms, context-dependent and orthographic. This makes it impossible to create interoperable content that can be guarranteed to look the same or even accurate given the use of different fonts and text processors.

Experts from Mongolia and China are currently working with the Unicode Consortium in order to simplify and standardise the Mongolian encoding model.

r12a commented 4 years ago

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ZmongolCode commented 4 years ago

We are going to solve it. we need to remove out the notorious MVS, FVS. and visual ambiguity structure. Please refer to the thread #38

xfq commented 2 years ago

This is a list of Mongolian-related documents published by UTC: https://www.unicode.org/L2/topical/mongolian/