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OSX actually has been shipping for a while now with a decent Tibetan font.

Unfortunately Windows' Tibetan font ("Microsoft Himalaya") is in a disappointing state.

See the mashed up letters on row 3, letters 3 and 4 from the left: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/family.aspx?FID=32...

The link to purchase the font links to a 3rd party they commissioned the font from, but they no longer seem to sell it.

If you have an OSX and a Windows computer you can compare the font support between them here: http://www.unicode.org/charts-6.1.0beta/script/chart_Tibetan...

Symbols 0FC5 - 0FC8 are especially poor and almost unrecognizable.

Many letters are missing from 0F75 - 0FBC, which are used for Sanskrit transliteration into Tibetan.



The monk is using his font also in his website: http://www.lobsangmonlam.org/


Works for me! (Win 7 x64 Ultimate; no extra language packs installed, just English. Impressive that it Just Works™...) http://i.imgur.com/E0XYi.jpg


That page is all boxes for me(no fonts).




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