What I realized is that you could replace this font with a Tibetan unicode font compatible with Linux, and that this would then enable Tibetan support in all applications on Android, including the web browser, email apps, instant messaging, and short messaging (SMS), among others. It does however have something called the “fallback” font, which is used to render any encoded text it comes across that it doesn’t quite know what to do with. However, by default Android only has a small number of fonts built-in, and doesn’t support the easy addition of new fonts or locales. Google Android is based on Linux, and fortunately is able to support the use of the GPL-licensed Tibet Machine Unicode font. Dedicated academics, volunteers and software engineers have stayed focused on solving this and the most recent versions of all major operating systems are able to render Tibetan and provide Tibetan character input tools. While it only has a small alphabet of characters, the Tibetan language has been notoriously difficult to support on Mac, Windows and Linux due to some complexities in how one character can modify the next. Tendor’s Yarlung Raging blog viewed on a T-Mobile myTouch3G Android Phone Thanks to the open-source movement and the hard work of many Tibet supporters and typography experts, I am happy to announce that rendering of Tibetan characters is now supported on the most fantastic of mobile smartphones, Google Android!!! Also I don’t read Tibetan, but I enjoy looking at it! DISCLAIMER: I am by no means an expert in this issue – I am just an an enthusiastic hacker with a dream.
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