Published on 2025-08-26

The vertical Mongol bichig script disrupts computing

The Mongol bichig is a vertical script that poses major difficulties for its display on computer terminals. The majority of current techniques use horizontal fonts rotated by ninety degrees, which simultaneously rotates the Latin, Cyrillic, or Chinese letters present in the text. Versions of the Firefox browser prior to the thirtieth thus required modifications of internal settings to correctly decode this system.
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