Yes, they did 64-bit for the Mongolian LIP, too!

re: Yes, they did 64-bit for the Mongolian LIP, too!

Mongolian runs LtR — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:15:07 GMT

I guess you get your Mongolian data from the same informants who lie to you about Canadian English. Mongolian script has top-to-bottom character progression and <em>left-to-right</em> stacking order, meaning any system built for vertical text that assumess invariant RtL borks.

re: Yes, they did 64-bit for the Mongolian LIP, too!

Michael S. Kaplan — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:10:53 GMT

The conspiracy theory part of me wonders if China encouraging the traditional script for Mongolian is a way to keep up illiteracy vs. learning Han as the most common choices in Inner Mongolia....

re: Yes, they did 64-bit for the Mongolian LIP, too!

John Cowan — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:28:56 GMT

IMAO, Mongolians shouldn't abandon their straightforward Cyrillic spelling system for an archaic Mongolian-script spelling that fits their language about as well as English spelling fits English. Doing so would turn what is now a straightforward and easy accomplishment into something that takes years to master, with many people never mastering it at all -- just like English.

A not-so-good reason for resistance to Mongolian script is that it's used in Inner Mongolia, and (Outer) Mongolians have long distrusted their Chinese relatives, considering them "too Han".

(This is the second time I've typed this comment -- I tried to post it this morning, but it may have been lost due to Internet problems rather than a problem with the blogging software. Still waiting for that third strike.)

re: Yes, they did 64-bit for the Mongolian LIP, too!

Michael S. Kaplan — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:50:12 GMT

Explaining the title -- the Downloading languages for Windows page only links to the 32-bit LIP even though both 32-bit and 64-bit exist -- the page has a similar problem for Turkmen.