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The Tibetan & Himalayan Library makes available the alpha release of
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the Unicode character based Tibetan Machine Uni OpenType font for
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writing Tibetan, Dzongkha and Ladakhi in dbu can script with full
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support for the Sanskrit combinations found in chos skad texts.
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This font is based on the Tibetan Machine font originally designed and
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developed by Tony Duff of the Tibetan Computer Company over many
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years, the rights of which were purchased from him by the Trace
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Foundation in order to make it freely available under the terms of the
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Gnu General Public License.
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OpenType tables and more than 2,000 additional glyphs were added to
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the original font by Nathaniel Garson and Christopher Fynn under the
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auspices of THL. This new OpenType version of the font contains almost
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4,000 glyphs and can generate over 20,000 different combinations.
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The Tibetan Machine Uni font was developed to enable Unicode based
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Tibetan script computing on Microsoft Windows, Java, Unix and Linux
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platforms - or any platform with an OpenType shaping engine supporting
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Tibetan script.
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