Hello my tibetan letters look like boxes i logged in and out i reinstalled the program several Times its downloaded from google play. What should i do?
Hello.
Sorry about the late reply, I had not looked at this forum. The program does not come with any Tibetan font, you have to install one in your system. Tibetan Machine Uni is pretty good, you can find it here:
http://tibetan-machine-uni-font.soft112.com/
Best,
Yves
link does not work. Also, how to install on a Kindle? Does’t look do-able. Would love to be wrong. (Tibetan is not downloadable from default Amazon languages.)
It is weird, the link works for me (on a computer). Maybe you could try and look for “TibMachUni-1.901b.ttf” or “Tibetan Machine Uni”. About Kindle I do not know, I do not use it. It should accept .ttf fonts.
Also, a little Tibetan weirdness on the iPad. After selected the “you” word (khyod) in, say, “you plural” question, the naro “o” character starts wandering down the line with the following chars when they are typed. Selecting the “fill in the blank for me” option works fine, though it does take 4 taps to fill in that auto-fill word. And if anyone figures out how to install any Tibetan font on the Kindle Fire, I would sure appreciate hearing how to do that. Thanks.
Kindle, eBooks with embedded Tibetan: http://digitaltibetan.org/index.php/Kindle_ebooks_with_embedded_Tibetan_font
Weirdness with font stacking: Some stacks don’t render properly based on OpenType bugs on the platform – best to report to Apple, the more reports the more they take it seriously.
And now the Tibetan course is not accepting any of the auto-fill characters. After partially filling in an answer with auto-fill, the answer is always marked as wrong. Bonk. The result page shows nothing but what was typed on the included keyboard. When it rains, it pours. Also, there are quite a few words and phrases without any audio. Audio is really helpful. Please help. Thanks.
What platform and browser? Worked fine minutes about with latest MacOSX and Safari. Now, the iOS typing of Tibetan is still an issue, you need to just blindly type the letters and ignore the output in the field that is not properly updating the stacks.
Interesting. The Safari browser (on the IPad) works for the Tibetan Language (after I installed the Tibetan language). The font is very small (for these eyes, anyway). Using the provided “on-screen keyboard” is a real pain for the beginner (like me). Then again, I am used to using the Tibetan keyboard for the PC (Tibetan (PRC), which can not be loaded on the keyboard, even though it’s install. ??)
-What PC keyboard to most folk use?
-The browser does not work on either the Kindle or the Android Samsung Galaxy S4, probably due to not having Tibetan language installed there. (Are there any working Tibetan fonts for Android? All I ever seem to find are just rip-offs, that don’t work.)
In the Memrise App, I just checked the rest of the things I have:
Using the Memrise app:
-IOS on IPad, using the Memrise app. Useable, but, yeah, the typing is a mess, too. Then it stopped accepting the auto-fill chars (if it ever did). If you use the auto-fill for part of the answer, then select some chars (from the options at the bottom of the screen) for the rest of the answer, all the app is seeing is what you selected after the auto-fill.
2. On Android - Kindle Fire HD, the Tibetan chars don’t show at all. Probably due to not having a Tibetan font installed or existing. Ditto on #3.
3. On Android - Samsung Galaxy S4, the super-script and the sub-script chars show, but nothing else. Weird.
Doesn’t have any of these issue in the Memrise French or Italian languages. (Then again, I am no Unicode expert so who knows.) Then again, the videos don’t work ever in any language on the Kindle Fire HD.
Sorry for the wall of text. I have played around with Tibetan for years but never really got serious about it, until I saw your work here. This is really the only place I know of on the whole Internet with any sort of worthwhile online Tibetan language experience. Thank you very, very much. I would some day like to be able to talk to my Tibetan teachers without a translator. Work like this makes me quite happy to subscribe to the Memrise site. Take care and thanks again…
Some of the new Amazon Fire devices have Tibetan fonts installed, otherwise try the link I posted earlier to get Chris Fynn’s Tibetan fonts on a Kindle, it works actually pretty well.
Unicode Tibetan is a standard but it depends on the platform if they have the fonts pre-installed (and supported.). It’s a challenge to get them in as it’s a minority language compared with other languages on this planet. Now, on iOS it’s painless which is nice.
I think most of the memrise Tibetan classes would be focused on translating sentences and words so you don’t need to type in Tibetan which is not that practical in real life. Reading texts and speaking is more important.
Anyway, all this is much much better than i the early nineties when there was no standard and little font support.