Dear Sir/Madam,Dear Aso,
I am emailing on behalf of the Tajikistani state working group on localizing software for Tajik language. Could you please kindly guide us to be in right direction. What shall be the procedure of standartization of alphabet symbols? Tajik alphabet makes use of cyrillic symbols and contains of 35 letters.
If it is not right address to ask for help, could you
please kindly direct me to right one.
Appreciate very much your consideration and help.
All the best
Aso
The Tajik alphabet is fully supported by Unicode, and so by recent operating systems e.g. Windows 2000 and later and by much recent applications software e.g. MS Office 97 and later. All that you need are suitable font and keyboard drivers.
As I understand it (and confirmed by http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tajik.htm), the Tajik alphabet consists of most of the Russian alphabet plus the following:
U+0492 and U+0493 ÒÒ U+04E2 and U+04E3 ÓÓ U+049A and U+049B ÒÒ U+04EE and U+04EF ÓÓ U+04B2 and U+04B3 ÒÒ U+04B6 and U+04B7 ÒÒ
Unfortunately these characters are not all supported by the Microsoft core fonts (although they do support the national languages of the other Central Asian republics). But they are supported by widely available fonts including Arial Unicode MS, Palatino Linotype, Code2000, Doulos SIL and TITUS Cyberbit Basic. (If you have any of these fonts installed you should see the Tajik characters above.)
There is no Tajik keyboard supplied with Windows, but you can create one using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. You might find that the Microsoft Uzbek Cyrillic keyboard meets your needs, but I am not sure if it supports the long vowels ÓÓÓÓ.
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