Menksoft Mongolian IME

Not to be confused with Menksoft IMEs.

Not to be confused with Menksoft Mongolian IMEs.

Menksoft Mongolian IME 2008

Menksoft Mongolian IME is an input method editor (or IME) made by Menksoft for typing Mongolian writing systems such as:

• Mongolian script
  • Uyghur style Mongolian script (Proto-Mongolian script, Mongolian written in the Old Uyghur alphabet by Tatar-Tonga)
  • Clear script
  • Manchu script
  • Xibe script
• 'Phags-pa script
• Soyombo script
• Galik script

Function

The Menksoft IMEs make use of Private Use Areas (PUA) of Unicode and the Chinese GB 18030 code that form the Menksoft Mongolian code (Chinese: 蒙科立蒙古文编码).

With the influence of Chinese input methods' built-in whole-sentence input pattern the focus of Menksoft Mongolian IME is not placed on a Mongolian keyboard layout but on phoneme pattern input methods, as they are more commonly used for Chinese-language text.

For the standard Unicode keyboard layout of Menksoft, see Menksoft Mongolian Phoneme Input Methods.

For the word-pattern IME of Menksoft, see Menk Mongolian Whole-Word Input method.

Use

Unicode was late to provide adequate support for Mongolian script; the fist and (as of 2009) only functional implementation was shipped with Windows Vista. This resulted in the popularity of Menksoft IMEs in Inner Mongolia, where local-government websites use them.^{[Ref 1][Ref 2][Ref 3]}

Interface

English

There is an English interface for Menksoft Mongolian IME; however, Menksoft did not build an English installation program. Therefore, Westerners must use the Chinese installation programs (including mojibake), setting the language to the English interface through the language bar after installation.

References

1. ^ "Inner Mongolia, China" (in Mongolian language). Inner Mongolia government. http://www.omjms.gov.cn. Retrieved 2009-03-07. 
2. ^ "Ordos" (in Mongolian language). Ordos government. http://mng.ordos.gov.cn/. Retrieved 2009-03-07. 
3. ^ "Bayingol" (in Mongolian language). Bayingol government. http://mon.xjbz.gov.cn/. Retrieved 2009-03-07. 

See also

• Boljoo IME
• Menksoft Mongolian IMEs
• Menksoft IMEs

External links

• (Chinese) Menksoft Mongolian IME
• (Mongolian) Menksoft Mongolian IME (The English advertisement is the download link)
• (Chinese) (Mongolian) Mongolian site by Menksoft