RE: Two Final Threads - Diphthongs / Final glyph checks

Hi Badral and all,

One of our guiding principle that we have used in our discussions is that we disturb the encoding as little as possible all the while trying to make it at least sufficient. The assignment of FVSs from the beginning does exhibit order, but it is idiosyncratic at times. That is not necessarily a bad thing – it was a design decision given the current state of font development. To try to bring in a much higher level of order into the encoding at this point in time is probably hopeless. I like the notions that have been brought up about assigning the default glyph to the most commonly used glyph at a given position. I like the thought of making the first FVS assignment (ie FVS1) to the next-most commonly occurring glyph. But we don’t really have the luxury of redefining things at this point. I agree that it is not the optimal design and implementation, but it is what we have, and we need to be happy with it. Maybe our grandsons or grand-daughters will come up with a better solution!

That being said, with Mr. Jirimutu starting in 1989 when laptops were just coming to the market, with Mr. Quejingzhabu starting his design around the same time, with Erdenechimeg starting at least by 1999, I laud each of you for your forward thinking design that you were able to give to this encoding with such a premature test platform. We can always see much better in hind-sight.

Over the weekend I will put to pen a proposal to the UTC suggesting we include the NP (as listed at http://r12a.github.io/scripts/mongolian/variants.html ) as our mutually agreed upon list of FVS assignments. I am hoping that you all will support this move. If we need further discussion, let’s do it quickly and specifically with images of the case in point (images in contrast to text so there is no rendering problem) so that we can understand each other clearly. I will write more on the situation with the U+1807, U+180A, U+1885, and U+1886 tomorrow. Hopefully we can settle that shortly.

Thanks,
Greg


From: Badral S. [mailto:badral@bolorsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 9:46 PM
To: public-i18n-mongolian@w3.org
Subject: Re: Two Final Threads - Diphthongs / Final glyph checks

Hi all,
How do you think, if we use only FVS2 or FVS3 for overriding? Currently, we use varying FVS1 and FVS2 for this purpose. I think, it's not optimal to teach and to perceive especially for new users.

@Jirimutu: Could you please translate it into English?

Badral

On 12.11.2015 04:59, jrmt@almas.co.jp<mailto:jrmt@almas.co.jp> wrote:
Hi Greg and All

I have received another interview replay from Professor Bateer of Social Academy of Inner Mongolia (内蒙古社会科学院).
I have committed the original reply document for reference.

Thanks and Best regards,

Jirimutu
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From: jrmt@almas.co.jp<mailto:jrmt@almas.co.jp> [mailto:jrmt@almas.co.jp]
Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 12:22 PM
To: 'Greg Eck' <greck@postone.net><mailto:greck@postone.net>; public-i18n-mongolian@w3.org<mailto:public-i18n-mongolian@w3.org>
Subject: RE: Two Final Threads - Diphthongs / Final glyph checks

Hi Greg and All,

I thinks we have got to final agreement on how to handle the Mongolian Diphthongs.

Please correct If I am mistaking anything in my summarize.

Firstly Compared to GB 26226-2010, GB 25914-2010 and MB font, MS font in the https://r12a.github.io/scripts/mongolian/variants


1.       We have switched U+1836_Y first medial form ( the default form) to [http://r12a.github.io/scripts/mongolian/v/1836i.png] , encoded as <U+1836>,

2.       We have switched the second medial form of U+1836_Y to [http://r12a.github.io/scripts/mongolian/v/1836m.png] , encoded as <U+1836, FVS1>.

3.       We have Switched the first medial form (the default form) of U+1838_W is  [http://r12a.github.io/scripts/mongolian/v/1838i.png] ,  encoded as <U+1838>

4.       We have Switched the second medial form of U+1838_W is [http://r12a.github.io/scripts/mongolian/v/1838m.png] , encoded as <U+1838, FVS1>


5.       For the Mongolian Diphthongs, we will support both theory which is exist or non-exist.

6.       For the Mongolian Diphthongs, one can encode it as ai, ei, ii, oi, ui, oei, uei, as well as ayi, eyi, iyi, oyi, oeyi, ueyi in the medial and ay, ey, iy, oy, oey, uey.
But the the yi in the medial should encode as  <U+1836, FVS1> if use *yi, could not use any contextual condition to derive from default form.

7.       Same to the Mongolian Diphthongs used o, u, oe, ue after vowel. They can be encoded as o, u, oe, ue as well as w, but have to encode as <U+1838, FVS1> if use *w




8.       I would like to ask our linguists to give out the exact encoding sequence for following case if you use ayi, eyi, iyi, oyi, oeyi, ueyi for Mongolian Diphthongs.

ᠨᠠᠢ᠌ᠮᠠ -
ᠰᠢᠢᠳᠪᠦᠷᠢ -
ᠦᠢᠯᠡᠰ -
ᠰᠦᠢᠯᠡᠬᠦ -
ᠠᠤᠭ ᠠ -
ᠲᠠᠤᠯᠠᠢ -
ᠤᠤᠯ -
…..

I am wandering there will be some ambiguous encoding sequence for these word.


9.       There are one issue need to make consensus between our members.

After this change do we need to change the following NNBSP suffixes encoding in DS05 document ?

Because it is using <U+1836> without FVS1. (We are ok to remain as before. We can handle NNBSP in a special rule)

 ᠢᠶᠠᠷ <U+202F><U+1822><U+1836><U+1820><U+1837>
 ᠢᠶᠡᠷ <U+202F><U+1822><U+1836><U+1821><U+1837>

 ᠢᠶᠠᠨ <U+202F><U+1822><U+1836><U+1820><U+1828>

 ᠢᠶᠡᠨ <U+202F><U+1822><U+1836><U+1821><U+1828>


10.   Do we need to support both possibility for following NNBSP suffixes encoding ? maybe there more than following.

ᠲᠠᠶ <U+202F><U+1832><U+1820><U+1822>

ᠲᠡᠶ <U+202F><U+1832><U+1821><U+1822>

ᠲᠠᠶᠢᠭᠠᠨ <U+202F><U+1832><U+1820><U+1836><U+1822><U+182D><U+1820><U+1828>

ᠲᠡᠶᠢᠭᠡᠨ<U+202F><U+1832><U+1821><U+1836><U+1822><U+182D><U+1821><U+1828>


Finally, I was saying that I had walked through the Universities, Research Institutes and  Publishing house and took some interviews related with the Mongolian Diphthongs in Hohhot last month. I am receiving some of the interview replay document from each organization now.
I have interviewed following organization in Hohhot last month.

1.       Inner Mongolia Educational Publishing House (内蒙古教育出版社)

2.       Inner Mongolia Normal University Computer Science Institute (内蒙古师范大学计算机学院)

3.       Social Academy of Inner Mongolia (内蒙古社会科学院)

4.       Hohhot Minzu College (呼和浩特民族学院)

5.       Minzu University of China(中央民族大学) – telephone interview.

All of them disagree the Diphthongs non-existence theory and welcome to support both theory.
Regarding to the encoding sequence, all of them welcome to switch to regularly used and broadly accepted one to default form like listed above.
For all of member’s reference, I would like to commit all of the interview reply in their original format to this discussion forum for archive the documentation.

I had committed the interview reply from Inner Mongolia Normal University Computer Science Institute (内蒙古师范大学计算机学院) last week.
I have attached the interview reply from  Inner Mongolia Educational Publishing House (内蒙古教育出版社) in this mail.
They say the stamped original document is on the road.

All of these documentation is written in Chinese or Mongolian,
I am sorry for I am not able to get enough time to translate or summarize them in English in shortly.
If anyone need English translation or summarization, please let me know.
I will try to find time to respond on your individual request later.

Thanks and Best Regards,

Jirimutu
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Phone : 03-5688-2081,   Fax : 03-5688-2082
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http://www.mongolfont.com/

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Mail:  jirimutu@delehi.com<mailto:jirimutu@delehi.com>       Mobile:18647152148
Phone:  +86-471-6661969,      Ofiice： +86-471-6661995
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From: Greg Eck [mailto:greck@postone.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 10:55 AM
To: jrmt@almas.co.jp<mailto:jrmt@almas.co.jp>; 'Badral S.' <badral@bolorsoft.com<mailto:badral@bolorsoft.com>>; public-i18n-mongolian@w3.org<mailto:public-i18n-mongolian@w3.org>
Subject: RE: Two Final Threads - Diphthongs / Final glyph checks

Hi Badral,

I don’t see this as such a big issue. Fonts should be as neutral as possible and as Richard Wordingham put it, contain as little grammar as possible. Of course thorny solutions like the Final Feminine Ga in Mongolian are made easy with OpenType rulings.

The solution Baiti has implemented allows one to type in both AYI as well as AI given the preference of the user. Of course this makes more work for the utilities developer, but it maintains the emphasis on neutrality.

Greg

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Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 9:22 AM
Subject: RE: Two Final Threads - Diphthongs / Final glyph checks

Hi Badral and All,
Great! welcome to raise this issue and declare the insistance of linguists in Mongolia. because I know this the linguistic argument is continued several handrid years.
You can refer the Dr. Liang’s article what I have committed before.
I don’t care if you want to encode the diphthongs as AYI, EYI, IYI, OYI, UYI, OEYI, UEI. In this case, it is an irregular usage in modern Mongolian and
Unicode provide you encode the Y as <U+1836_Y, FVS1> in the Diphthongs.
We will continue to use AI, EI, II, OI, UI, OEI, UEI for Diphthongs. Because all of our users will definitely disagree for the removing Diphthongs from Mongolian scripts.

Here I am also collecting Mongolian and Computer Science expert’s opinion in Inner Mongolia.
I will commit all of the reply from Inner Mongolia in this thread till we can reach the agreement.

Please find attached file interview reply from 4 Computer Science Professors,
Song Yun, Has, Wang Serguleng, Lin Min in Inner Mongolia Normal University.
Let me summary all of the interview replies later.
Jirimutu
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Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: Two Final Threads - Diphthongs / Final glyph checks

Hi Greg,
Unfortunately, I have to re-open this issue. You are right that you were insecure with my agreement.
I asked today from our Mongolian linguistic team with some Mongolian script experts like Prof. Dr. Sh. Choimaa, Dr. Munkh-Uchral et.al. to confirm this agreement at Mongolian diphthongs. Due to Mongolian language law or what I don't know, somehow the discussion was very intensive, sceptical and concentrated. Nobody has accepted my agreement with ai, ei, oi, ue, üe, öe. I claimed that this encoding seems similar to Mongolian Cyrillic (ай, эй, ой, өй, үй, өй) and simplify our rules significantly. But they argue as follows:
Argument 1: It destabilizes existing Mongolian data. They summarized, that any changes could be only acceptable/doable for some good reason like bug fix, correction (at least like our Da, Na, Ga issues) but not for destruction!
Argument 2: Encoding diphthongs as ai, ei etc. lead damage to Mongolian script. As you all know Mongolian script keeps the alternation rule of consonant and vowel. And we treat ya as a consonant and keep the rule. But if we encode diphthongs as ai, ei etc., it voids the rule.
Argument 3: We should be more concentrated on how to encode Mongolian Script correctly in computer rather than damaging it to make the encoding easier.
Summary: All diphthongs have to be encoded as ayi, eyi, oyi, uyi, öyi, üyi.

Badral
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