Mongolian Information Processing Status on Windows

    The history of Mongolian Information Processing at least have ten to fifteen years. According to our knowledge, there are a lot kind of Mongolian system. The Mongolian OS or Mongolain encoding method, at least have above twenty kinds of it. All of these systems, have not unified their encode. The Mongolian scripts save to computer use computer code. By these days, the code of Mongolian saved by the individual systems mentioned above, is all different each others. It causes the saved document can not share each other.
In this digital ages, the standardized encoding is extremely important. Before the Unicode, all of the country defined their own standards. After the Unicode getting more popular, recently, all of the systems accept the Unicode and provide the unicode support. The Mongolian Unicode Standard had been accepted by ISO organization and Unicode Consortium in early 2000.
    But the Mongolian Unicode Standard Proposal use new font rendering techniques. All the OS providers are not ready to provide the complex font rendering logic on system level till 2007 or 2008. Microsoft provided the complex font rendering engine and Mongolian implementation on Windows Vista.
    But the Vista system itself have memory and performance problem led the most of users downgrade their PC to XP.
    The Mongolian implementation has been widely used since the Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. Although Windows Vista and Windows 7 only provided one Mongolian Baiti font, it is provided a new era or new road to Unicode Mongolian implementation and Mongolian Information Processing.
     We use the OpenType Font Techniques which was provided by Microsoft and Adobe, developed a lot of OpenType Mongolian Font. All of our OpenType Font and Mongolian Information Processing Techniques developed by us will be providing from this site.
     We also have migrated the OpenType Engine on old Windows XP. After you install the package and Fonts on Windows XP, you can show Unicode Mongolian on Windows XP now. It is very important to use Unicode Mongolian on Windows XP, because, most of mongolian people are still using Windows XP in these days.

    How to display and input Mongolian on Windows XP

    If you use Windows XP, to display and input Unicode Mongolian, you need to download and install following package on your XP. Please follow the readme instruction to setup your XP to correctly display the Mongolian.
     OpenType Font Rendering Engine for Windows XP      Download

    For input Mongolian on Windows XP, please find and download the Almas Mongolian Keyboard from left menu, install it on your XP by the instruction.

     The Keyboard layout and Input Method

    Currently, The Unicode Mongolian Input Method have Following kinds.

     Microsoft Mogolian Input Method and Keyboard Layout
     Almas Mongolian Input Method and Keyboard Layout

     We will continue to introduce a lot kinds of Unicode Mongolian input methods and Keyboard layouts.

     Editor and Applications

     On the Windows (include XP installed Mongolian Font Rendering Package), the MS Office 2007 products and notepad can edit Mogolian. Office product can edit Mongolian in Vertical line mode, some of them only support right to left line feed, but the notepad and other application only support horizantal line mode.
     The Word product in Office 2007 and the following version, can support Mongolian editing in Vertical line mode and left to right line feed.

     We will continue to introduce the Mongolian Editor and other Applications here. Please wait and check regularly.

     Web Page Techniques correspionding to Mongolian

On the Windows (include the XP installed Mongolian Font Rendering Package), The Mongolian support status on the following kinds of browsers

     Internet Explorer(8 or later) : Can display Unicode Mongolian correctly, left to right line feeded vertical line mode is supported, but the form TextArea can only support right to left line feeded vertical line edit mode
    Safari : Can display Unicode Mongolian correctly, and completely support left to right line feeded vertical line mode.
    Chrome : Can display Unicode Mongolian correctly, and completely support left to right line feeded vertical line mode.
    FireFox : Can display Unicode Mongolian correctly in horizantal line mode, can not support any kind of vertical line mode.
    Opera : Can display Unicode Mongolian correctly in horizantal line mode, can not support any kind of vertical line mode.

We will continue to introduce the Mongolian Support Status of kinds of Browsers here. Please wait and check regularly.