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Usage

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This template is intended for use with text written in the Unicode "Mongolian" script. Note, the Unicode "Mongolian" script is a unification of the Mongolian, Todo, Manchu and Sibe scripts, so this template can be used for text written in various different languages, including varieties of Mongolian (Classical Mongolian, Halh [khk] and Peripheral Mongolian [mvf]), as well as Manchu [mnc] and Sibe [sjo].

  • 1st parameter is the Mongolian (Todo, Manchu, Sibe) text to display
  • 2nd parameter is optional; if it is 'h' then the text is laid out horizontally; if it is any other value (e.g. 'v'), or if it is omitted then the text is laid out vertically (if the browser supports vertical layout)
  • lang parameter: defines the language of the text, e.g. mn for Mongolian, mnc for Manchu, and sjo for Sibe; also used for switching font families by language
  • style parameter: defines extended style of the text area, e.g. height:50px limits the height as 50px, if the length of text is over than 50px, the rest of contents will align at the next column(s).
  • In addition, you can override the defaults for font-size, line-height, and display using likewise named parameters.

If you have a long run of vertical Mongolian text (i.e. more than one or two words) embedded in a horizontal English paragraph, it will create a very large gap between lines, so it is best to break long vertical runs of Mongolian text into short word-lengthed chunks. This can be done by wrapping each Mongolian word in a separate MongolUnicode template, and separating each MongolUnicode template by a space character (if you omit the space character the Mongolian text will format correctly, but if a user copies the Mongolian text from the article the individual words will be concatenated into a single word). Do not use <br/> to break vertical Mongolian runs for unnecessary purpose as this causes problems with browsers which do not support vertical layout.

Examples

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  • {{MongolUnicode|ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌}} produces: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌
  • {{MongolUnicode|ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌|v}} produces: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌
  • {{MongolUnicode|ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌|h}} produces: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌
  • {{MongolUnicode|ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ}} {{MongolUnicode|ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌|v}} produces: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌
  • {{MongolUnicode|ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌|style=height:50px}} produces: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌
  • {{MongolUnicode|ᠸᠢᠺᠢᠫᠧᠳᠢᠶᠠ|font-size=2em}} produces: ᠸᠢᠺᠢᠫᠧᠳᠢᠶᠠ

Issues

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For MediaWiki issues regarding this: bugzilla:9436

Non-Font

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When Daicing font set to be the EUDC,

  • ZERO WIDTH JOINER at the head-place does not work.
  • NIRUGU does not work.
  • NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE does not work.

Font issues

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  • MQT=Menksoft's Menk Qagan Tig, is a font for Hudum, Todo, Manchu and Sibe, with full Ali-Gali support;
  • MW=Almas's Mongolian White, is a font for Hudum and Todo, with some Ali-Gali support;
  • MB=Founder-Microsoft's Mongolian Baiti, is a font for Hudum, Todo, Manchu and Sibe, with some Ali-Gali support;
  • MU=Monotype Drawing Office's Mongol Usug, is a font for Hudum and Todo;
  • MS=Myatav Erdenechimeg's MongolianScript, is a font for Hudum only;
  • DW=Daicing White, also known as Abkai Xanyan, is a font for Manchu, Sibe and Daur.
  1. Little issues are found in MQT;
  2. Final k/g ATR- rendering issues are found in all fonts except MQT and MS, but Erdenechimeg said her font was an early draft and does not met current Unicode standards;
  3. MU does not follow Unicode Standardized Variants (by ad hoc rendering FVS1~3) in many cases;
  4. MB 5.00 does not match Unicode Standard, please upgrade it to MB 5.01 (KB929763);
  5. Under certain situations ‍ᠶ‍ is incorrectly rendered as ‍ᠢ‍ or ᠵ‍ in MB 5.01 and MU 2.37;
  6. ᡓ‍ is incorrectly rendered as ᠴ‍ in MU 2.37;
  7. MB 5.01 does not render ᡯᡳ correctly (we may use ᡯᡳ᠌ instead in MB).

Template data

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This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:MongolUnicode in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for MongolUnicode

Intended for use with text written in the Unicode "Mongolian" script, to improve display of this text in browsers.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Text1

The Mongolian text to display

Contentrequired
Direction2

Whether to display the text horizontal (default) or vertical

Suggested values
h v
Default
h
Stringsuggested
Languagelang 3

The language of the text as a ISO 639 language code

Suggested values
mn mnc sjo khk mvf
Example
mn
Stringsuggested
displaydisplay

no description

Unknowndeprecated
font-weightfont-weight

no description

Unknownoptional
font-sizefont-size

no description

Unknownoptional
line-heightline-height

no description

Unknownoptional
vertical-alignvertical-align valign

no description

Unknownoptional
CSS stylestyle

Defines extended style of the text area, e.g. height:50px limits the height as 50px, if the length of text is over than 50px, the rest of contents will align at the next column(s).

Stringoptional

See also

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