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Using Bod-yig on computer is no different than using any other font: You need to know the keyboard in order to type the font. You can share your documents with other people if they have the same font.

But, you say, it is different! Yes, you are right. But it is only different because many computers do not have a Tibetan keyboard or font. Or an Arabic keyboard or font. Or a Mongolian keyboard or font. Or many others — that's all!

So to type in their own language, most people need to add two things:

• A "keyboard input program".
• Their own language font.

Here's some information on how to do that:

• How to Type བོད་ཡིག་ on any computer, at TibetanGeeks
• Preparing Computers for Tibetan Editing at DigitalTibetan
• Links to more info about using Tibetan on computer
• See more Bod-Yig on computer files: at TibetanGeeks, and at DigitalTibetan.

It's different for different brands and models, plus things can change with upgrades. So can't keep up with it here. Best is search the Web, and ask people you know, and on mailing lists and forums.

Here is some info about Tibetan on Samsung, as of May 2015.

On the web it is a bigger problem. Anyone with a browser can come to your web page, and if they don't have a Tibetan font on their computer, your page looks pretty bad.

There are things we can do to help. And even better things are coming the next couple years here now: embedding with @font-face, and hosted fonts!

There are several ways to use bod-yig on your web pages, but the first and best way, is to always use a Unicode font. Then anybody who has *any* other Unicode font can see your Tibetan.

• Learn about the best way to show Tibetan on your web pages
• Find out other (not so good) ways to use bod-yig on your web pages
• Links to websites using Unicode Tibetan

→ See all "Bod-Yig on the Web" files: on WebWalker.to, on DigitalTibetan.

• How to Use Monlam 3
  Flash movie, by Sonam Dawa
• On the Goodness of Unicode, by Tim Bray of Sun Microsystems
  "From Unicode's point a view, text is stored on a computer as a series of numbers, one per character. There are many different ways to arrange these numbers ... These are called 'encodings'."
• Tibetan font info page at Sonam Dawa site.
  Explains about installing and using Tibetan fonts, with links to more info.

• CTA བོད་ཡིག Bod.asia - Tibet.net in Tibetan (WordPress, embedded font)
• ཁ་བརྡ། KhabDha.org (WordPress)
• ཀུན་གླེང་། KunLeng.wordpress.com - Tibetan videos (WordPress)
• གློག་ཀླད། LokLad.com - Tibetan video tutorials (WordPress)
• དཔལ་ལྡན་རྒྱལ། PaldenGyal.com - Articles and writings (WordPress)
• The Tibet Post TheTibetPost.com - News website, made in McLeod Ganj (Joomla)
• བོད་ཡིག་གི་ནང་འཇུག་བྱེད་ཆས་ཁག་གཅིག་ཕབ་ལེན། bo.Wikipedia.org - You can add and edit information on this site (Wikipedia)

• TBRC, Tibetan Buddhism Resource Center
  "A registered non-profit corporation dedicated to the preservation, organization and dissemination of Tibetan literature. Using the latest technnological solutions, and a dedicated team of scholars, engineers, librarians, and technicians, TBRC aims to make the extraordinary literature of the Tibetan people available to all."
• THL, The Tibetan and Himalayan Library
  "A publisher of websites, information services, and networking facilities relating to the Tibetan plateau and southern Himalayan regions. THL promotes the integration of knowledge and community across the divides of academic disciplines, the historical and the contemporary, the religious and the secular, the global and the local."

Most online dictionaries concentrate on usage of words in Tibetan Buddhism, not in daily conversation. So it's kind of like learning english by reading Chaucer (14th-century english poet!).

en → bo

• Eng-Tib.com
  Shows part of speech, བོད་ཡིག་, wylie.
  Few, short english definitions. modern usage?
• FeeLang.net/online/tibetan.php
  Shows "funky-wylie" of tibetan input; short english definitions. modern usage?
• Standardizing Tibetan Terms of IT [download PDF 1.2M]
  by China Tibetology Research Center, 2006
  A big file of almost 3,000 IT words and phrases, in Tibetan, English and Chinese.
  This is made by the Project of Standardizing Tibetan Terms of Information Technology, at the China National Center for Tibetan Studies. It was eventually published as The Dictionary of Tibetan Information Technology Terminologies. modern usage, mostly inside China
• ཚིག་མཛོད། - TsikZoe.net
  auto-completion of word search; short definitions. modern usage in India

bo → en

• Nitartha.org/dictionary_search04.html
  Searches Rangjung Yeshe dictionary.
  search in Wylie
  shows all words containing the term. buddhism usage
• THLib.org/reference/dictionaries/tibetan-dictionary/translate.php
  THLib Translation Tool
  Search with བོད་ཡིག་ or Wylie.
  Uses many dictionaries, including Rangjung. mostly buddhism usage

Not all Unicode fonts contain all the necessary Tibetan characters. The most useful, according to what i read, are:

• Microsoft Himalaya
  available on Windows Vista; can be downloaded - is .ttf, so can be used on any platform.
  This font was developed by Microsoft together with the government of China. See info about the font here on the Microsoft website
• Arial Unicode MS
  AlanWood.net/unicode/fonts.html#arialunicodems
• TCRC YoutsoWeb
  PopDic.com/dict_tibetan.htm
  (TCRC Youtsoweb is mentioned on many sites as one of the most complete Unicode Tibetan fonts ... but it is not offered for download on tibet.net or tcrc ... you have to go to that popdic.com site to get it. Don't know why!)
  (NOTE: TCRC Youtsoweb is *not* the same as TCRC Youtso. (TCRC Youtsoweb is a Unicode font. TCRC Youtso, which you do get at tibet.net, is not a Unicode font.)

These fonts are supposed to be pretty complete:

• Tibetan Machine and Tibetan Machine Web
  Iris.Lib.Virginia.edu/tibet/tools/fonts.html
• TibetanMachineUni
  On linux, can install through your linux Package Manager.
• Monlam
  Most of the Monlam fonts are supposed to be Unicode, but there is question if they are all complete and correct Unicode. There seem to be some problems with stacking. Please help add more info!

A search on Google for tibet unicode font will turn up much information. Some of the more accessible sites are: