How to type བོད་ཡིག་
(bod-yig)
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Reading Tibetan: any Unicode Tibetan font
Unicode fonts in the TrueType format
will display on any system.
(MS Himalaya, Monlam BodYig, Tibetan Machine Uni, TCRC YoutsoWeb
are a few of the many Unicode Tibetan fonts.)
So you can read any document, that was typed in any
Unicode Tibetan font, as long as you have any Unicode Tibetan font
on your computer.
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Typing Tibetan: an input program
To type in Tibetan, you will need a separate keyboard program.
(This is nothing especially hard about Tibetan — it is true for any
language, that has different characters than the "roman" alphabet.)
Just like word processors or graphics programs,
different operating systems have different keyboard programs.
This program is also known as an IM - Input Method, or IME - Input Method Editor.
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Some fonts, like Monlam Bodyig, come bundled with an IME.
But really it is a separate thing. You can type any Unicode font with any
Unicode input program —
for example, i type the Monlam Bodyig font on Linux with the SCIM input program.
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Wait — say that again? What is an IME?
IM = IME = Input Method Editor = keyboard input program
It is a way to enter characters that are not on your keyboard.
It is a program that changes the keys on your keyboard,
so you can type characters your keyboard doesn't have!
Typing Tibetan on Windows
Windows Vista and Windows 7
Windows XP, Vista and 7
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Monlam IME
- Keyboard layout:
???
- How to get it ...
- The Monlam keyboard comes packaged with the Monlam fonts.
- How to install ...
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Install the Monlam package to install the keyboard (IME).
- How to use ...
- More info:
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Lobsang Monlam font website
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TCRC Unicode Keyboard
- Keyboard layout:
TCRC
- How to get it ...
- How to install ...
- How to use ...
- More info ...
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...
Windows XP
Typing Tibetan on Linux
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iBus:
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Fedora - built-in in Fedora 11 and above.
- Keyboard layout:
EWTS, Wylie, TCRC
- How to get it: If you have Fedora 11 or above, it should be there.
- How to install:
If not, go to your Package Manager and search for iBus, and select "install"
- How to use ...
- More info ...
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Ubuntu - built-in in Ubuntu ....
- Keyboard layout:
EWTS, Wylie, TCRC?
- How to get it: It should be there.
- How to install ...
If not, go to your Package Manager and search for iBus, and select "install"
- How to use ...
- More info ...
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SCIM (is being dropped in newer versions of linux).
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Fedora - built-in in Fedora 10 and below.
- Keyboard layout:
EWTS, Wylie
- How to get it: If you have Fedora 10 or below, it should be there.
- How to install
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SCIM itself:
Through your Package Manager
Applications → Add/Remove Software
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Tibetan keyboard for SCIM
Through your Package Manager
Applications → Add/Remove Software
search for "Tibetan"
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A Tibetan font
Through your Package Manager
Applications → Add/Remove Software
search for "Tibetan"
- How to use ...
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System → Preferences → Personal → Input Method
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Select, or hit the hot key (ctrl-space),
choose the keyboard you want: Wylie or EWTS,
and start typing Tibetan in any program.
- More info ...
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TCRC Unicode Keyboard
- Keyboard layout:
TCRC
- How to get it: Download from ...
- How to install ...
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Khedup/Norgay explanation will go here ...
- How to use ...
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Norgay explanation will go here ...
- More info ...
Typing Tibetan on Macintosh
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???
- How to get it ...
- How to install ...
- How to use ...
- More info:
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Mac OS-X 10.5.x for Tibetan Editing
but not much info here (jan 2010)
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Namgyal Audio-Visual Archive uses Macintosh for their work,
will try to find out from them what they are using.
Know more
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About Tibetan font:
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General info:
Thanks to all those who type Tibetan every day —
who tried the different methods, explained, corrected errors,
and made this page what it is!
The result you see here, is transcribed by James Walker,
and any errors are his alone.
Please contact
with your suggestions to make it better!
All content not copyright by anyone else is
copyright © 2003–2010 James Walker.
License for use is the GNU Free Documentation License.
Find it:
here in the
License directory
or
at the Free Software Foundation,
www.fsf.org
It would be great to have Tibetan and Chinese translations of this page.
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