Thanks for the help on Mongolian. Since those questions were so successful,
I have a few more!
(1) Some consonants followed by "a" or "e" have an alternate final form,
which (from what I understand) is indicated in Unicode by a variation
selector character in the data. Do these forms appear in words of one
syllable, for instance in "ra" or "ne" (assuming such words exist), or only
in longer words like "nara"?
(2) I'm realizing that until yesterday I was assuming that Mongolian
syllables always showed up in a nice CV pattern, with maybe a spare initial
vowel or final consonant. I guess this was because of the chart I've been
working from. Now I'm suspecting that may not be the case. If you have a
series of consonants, are "a" forms used for all but the last? (ie, "bgmno"
would be written the same as "bagamano"?) Similarly, can you have
sequences of vowels?
(3) My chart did not include the Uncode characters LHA, ZHI, and CHI. Is
there something special about them?
(4) Any idea where can I find a nice-quality, *free* Mongolian TrueType
font that I might be able to get permission to modify (add tables)?