Tibetan Fonts/Encoding
This second major release version of the Tibetan Language Kit for OS X currently includes one font, named XenoType Tibetan New. This typeface is the same as our Lhasa typeface used in earlier versions of the kit except that it has been reencoded for use with Unicode. It also contains a large number of stacked syllables (nearly 900) for writing Sanskrit terms.
We hope that many more fonts will be made available shortly — some from us and some from other vendors. Here are some of the fonts we're working on now:
Although we use Unicode as the base font encoding, the proper display of Tibetan text under OS X 10.2 requires the use of some contextualization routines. The intelligence that allows this to take place is unique to XenoType Technologies and its Tibetan fonts.
You may own other Unicode Tibetan fonts but unless all of the necessary glyph shapes have been encoded properly and in a manner consistent with our shaping routines, third party fonts will not function properly.
If you have a favorite Tibetan font and want it to work with our kit, please contact the manufacturer or vendor and ask them to contact us. We cannot honour requests to modify other vendors’ fonts. If you’re a font vendor, we are very interested in expanding the number of typefaces available for OS X and we encourage you to contact us.