Monlam Bod-yig3.01 Unicode To TCRCKB is a free software tool that allows you to set your keyboard tibetan. Sending an Email or chatting with your loved ones in Tibetan is very easy using this software product. Monlam Bod-yig3.01 Unicode To TCRCKB is a free software tool that allows you to set your keyboard tibetan. Sending an Email or chatting with your loved ones in Tibetan is very easy using this software product. This software also allows you to write tibetan on office or notepad.
Introduction
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This site provides a common place to obtain all free Unicodekeyboards and input methods (aka IMs or IMEs) for enterring Tibetantext. Font-based legacy input methods are not included because I’m sotired of receiving documents from people who don’t know better andtrying to convert them to something I can read. If you really needlegacy input methods/keyboards you can obtain them fromthe THDLwebsite, Lobsang Monlam’ssite, etc.
དྲ་ངོས་འདི་ནི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ཚད་ལྡན་ “Unicode” བོད་ཡིག་གི་མཐེབ་གཞོང་དང་ནང་བླུག་ཐབས་ཤེས་༼IM དང་ IME ཟེར་མཁན་༽ བབ་ལེན་ས་ཡོད། འདི་ན་རྣམ་གྲངས་རྙིང་པའི་ཡིག་གཟུགས་ཀྱི་མཐེབ་གཞོང་མེད། དེ་དགོས་ན་ THDLདང་ སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་དྲ་ངོས་ དེ་སོགས་ནས་ལེན་ཐུབ་ས་རེད།
For Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Tibetan Standard (Windows Vista/CNS)keyboard for Windows 2000/XP/etc., created with MSKLC by RichFelker (me). Untested, might need minor fixes. This is not needed ifyou have Windows Vista; it’s included with the OS. Documentation onthis layout can befound inEnglishand inTibetan at Tashi Tsering’s site.
- Dzongkha layout keyboard created withMSKLC by Chris Fynn.
- TISE, which allows you to enter Tibetantext by typing the Wylie [EWTS] transliteration.See official sitehere.
- Sambhota 1 work-alike keyboard byChris Walker. This is NOT the Sambhota software but rather a keyboardwhich enables one to enter Unicode Tibetan using the layout familiarto Sambhota users. Before using this you must first install “Keyman”.The free version seems to have been discontinued and no longeravailablefrom Tavultesoft,but LanguageGeek.com has anold version availablefor download.
- Sambhota 2 work-alike keyboard byChris Walker. Just like the above, this needs Keyman installedfirst.
- Monlam Bod-yig v2 — is this really a Unicode keyboard or not?
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For X Window System (Linux/BSD/*nix)
- Tibetan Standard (Windows Vista/CNS)keyboard for the X Window System, using XKB, by Rich Felker (me).Install it as bo (with no extension)in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols (location may vary onold/strange systems) and activate with the setxkbmap commandor your favorite graphical XKB configuration program. Newer versionsof X.org will include this keyboard in the standard distribution, butunder a different name: cn(tib).
- Dzongkha keyboard layout for X WindowSystem/XKB. You do not need to download this file unless you’recurious to read it; it has been included in the standard X.orgdistribution for a long time.
- UIM, through m17n-lib, makes various Tibetan input methodsavailable, but installation is OS- and distribution-specific. Use yoursystem’s package manager if you want to install these input methods.Beware that (as of Summer 2007) m17n-lib’s notion of what is “Wylie”is rather incorrect and probably not what you expect.
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For Linux Console
- Tibetan Standard (Windows Vista/CNS)keyboard for the Linux console, by Rich Felker (me). Loadusing loadkeys; the Caps_Lock key switches betweenwhatever your original layout was (US or other Latin-based keyboard)and Tibetan. Note that this is probably not useful unless you have aconsole terminal capable of displaying Tibetan, suchas uuterm.
For Macintosh
The following are for MacOS X (and later?). If you’re using anolder Mac there’s really no hope of communicating with UnicodeTibetan.
- Wylie and Dzongkha layoutkeyboard/IM, by Chris Walker. Visitthe officialsite for instructions in both English and Tibetan.
Sadly there seem to be no other layouts (Standard, TCRC, Sambhota,etc.) available for Mac.
Documentation
Most Tibetan keyboards have incomplete or no documentationavailable on the web. I will eventually fill in this section as I finddocumentation on the layouts I’m not yet familiar with.
Links
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These other sites may be useful to visitors attempting to obtainTibetan input software:
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Contact
འབྲེལ་བ་བྱེད་རོགས༎
My name is Rich Felker and you can reach me by email [email protected]. Please feel free to write if you have questions onusing the above software. If you write in Tibetan, PLEASE use Unicode,otherwise I probably will not be able to read your message.
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ངའི་མིང་ལ་Rich Felker ཟེར་གི་ཡོད། གློག་འཕྲིན་གྱི་ཁ་བྱང་ [email protected] རེད།མཉན་ཆས་འདི་སྐོར་དྲིས་བ་ཡོད་ན་ང་ལ་འཕྲིན་པ་བསྐུར་གནང། ཡིན་ནའང་ Unicode བེད་སྤྱོད་བྱེད་ན་མ་གཏོགས་ངས་ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་འཕྲིན་པ་ཀློག་ཐུབ་ས་མ་རེད།