Hanshi (MWG3_demo)

A handwriting font with full support for Hudum Mongolian, Sibe, Manchu and Manchu Ali Gali

Features

• Multi-language support: Hanshi is a demo font for Hudum Mongolian (ᠬᠤᠳᠦᠮ᠋ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ), Sibe (ᠰᡳᠪᡝ), Manchu (ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ), and Manchu Ali Gali (ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ ᠠᠯᡳ ᡬᠠᠯᡳ). It supports phonetically, graphetically, and (Menksoft)-graphically encoded text.
• Handwriting font: Hanshi is a handwriting font, mimicking smooth joining and adjusted kerning in handwriting by means of juncture segmentation and substantial contextual substitutions.
• Proper placement of Manchu (Ali Gali) diacritics: Manchu (Ali Gali) diacritics are properly placed around consonant-vowel junctures instead of just beside consonants or vowels.
• Unbounded gender propagation: Unbounded progressive gender propagation is implemented in this font: ᠠᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠢᠭᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠢᠭᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠢᠭ ᠡᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠢᠭᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠢᠭᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠯᠢᠭ.
• Prompt for illicit strings: Invalid control characters are rendered visible in this font, and it clearly differentiates illicit positional forms from out-of-context forms (segments terminated by ZWJs) or abbreviations (segments terminated by nirugus): s = ᠰ, s+ZWJ = ᠰ‍, s+nirugu = ᠰ᠊; bey = ᠪᠡᠶ (halfway in typing bey_e ᠪᠡᠶ᠎ᠡ).

Representation tips

Hudum Mongolian

(In C-M Joint transcription, plus <⁰> = CGJ = U+034F, <¹> = FVS1 = U+180B, <²> = FVS2 = U+180C, <³> = FVS3 = U+180D, <ʔ> = SSBM = U+1807)

• i as a medial offglide
  • Regular double-shin: no FVS
    • ail
  • Irregular single-shin: ...+CGJ
    • nai<⁰>ma
• y
  • Regular hooked shin: no FVS
    • mayig
  • Irregular hookless shin: ...+CGJ
    • namay<⁰>i, čimay<⁰>i
• (o), u, (ö), ü after an initial consonant
  • Irregular bare belly: ...+FVS3
    • bü<³>ü, xü<³>ü, xü<³>
  • Irregular hollow belly: ...+CGJ
    • mü<⁰>, d<¹>u<⁰>, ču<⁰>
  • Regular forms found in the 12 syllabaries: no FVS
• g
  • Feminine stray: no FVS
    • gram
  • Feminine coda in feminine shaping context: no FVS
    • bilig (neuter word)
    • ǰigde (feminine word)
    • bolšëwig (bigender word)
    • migman (masculine word)
  • Feminine coda in masculine shaping context: ...+FVS3
    • og<³>yu, abisig<³> (masculine word)
  • Masculine coda in masculine shaping context: no FVS
    • mëxanig (bigender word)
  • Masculine coda in feminine shaping context: ...+CGJ
    • nig<⁰>ta (masculine word)
    • ig<⁰>či (neuter word)
• Common alternative forms of a, o, ö, ü, n, t, d: ...+FVS1
  • aü<¹>t<¹>o<¹>, sëkü<¹>n<¹>d<¹>, xaramö<¹>ren, a<¹>
• Vowel-led second stems: SSBM+...
  • altan<ʔ>odo, buyan<ʔ>ö<¹>ljei, čimed<ʔ>odcar, čog<ʔ>agula
• Owing to Unicode encoding conflict, the default logic of rendering the final m with a long tail and the onset n with a floating dot follows that of the Manchu script in this font. Use m<¹> to get the Hudum form with a short tail; use n<²> to suppress the floating of the dot if needed.

Manchu

(In Abkai transcription)

• tvku, tvmbi
• buk'vri, buk'vn: k'=U+183A ('loan k')
• neh'v, neh'vji, welh'vme: h'=U+186D ('loan h')
• Dotted final n: ...+FVS1

Manchu Ali Gali

• Ali Gali ge, gi: g+FVS2+e, g+CGJ+i
• Tibetan alternative final n, s: ...+FVS1
• Tibetan a-chung: ɦ (= U+1887 = 'Ali Gali a')
• Sanskrit ā: isolately/finally aɦ; initially/medially aɦa
• Sanskrit ṛ, ṝ, ḷ, ḹ: isolately/initially rï, rïi, lï, lïi; medially/finally irï, irïi, ilï, ilïi (ï = U+1888 = 'Ali Gali i')

Preview

https://shenyileirob.github.io/hanshi/