Import Formats

• UDP Native formats: Unicode text with markers for Documents, Proprietary for Databases; Protected for both Documents and Databases

• Unicode Text formats: UTF-16 for Windows (Little Endian), UTF-16 for MAC (Big Endian), UTF-8

• RTF and Text formats. The codepages/fonts that UDP supports for Text can be any one of the following; RTF files can use one or more of the following:
  • Single Byte Character Set Codepages
    • 1252 (Latin 1) - used in North & South America, Western Europe, Australia, Oceania, etc. Often referred to as ANSI.
    • 1250 (Central/Eastern Europe)
    • 1251 (Cyrillic/Russian)
    • 1253 (Greek)
    • 1254 (Turkish)
    • 1255 (Hebrew)
    • 1256 (Arabic)
    • 1257 (Baltic)
    • 1258 (Vietnam)
    • 874 (Thai)
    • 437 (US) - MS-DOS/OEM
    • 850 (Multilingual Latin I) - European MS-DOS/OEM
    • 1000 (Mac OS Roman/US Code Page)

  • Double Byte Character Set Codepages
    • 932 (Japanese Shift-JIS)
    • 936 (Simplified Chinese GBK)
    • 950 (Traditional Chinese Big5)
    • 949 (Korean)

  • Tibetan/Dzongkha Font Based Formats
    • TibetanMachine, TibetanCaligraphic, TibetanClassic, DzongkhaCaligraphic
    • TibetanMachineWeb
    • Tibetan Modern A
    • Robillard (Ltibetan, etc)
    • Sambhota including Dedris, Eedris, Esama/b/c, Sama/b/c, Samw
    • TIBETBT
    • fonts derived from the "P.R.C. National Standard for Tibetan (Extension A)" (aka "Set A")
    • TCRC Bod-Yig, TCRC Youtsoweb, TCRC Youtso
    • All Tibetan Unicode fonts (of course)

  • ASCII/Tibetan Text Only formats
    • ACIP text files
    • Wylie text files
    • Tibetan Braille
    • Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary format

  RTF can be encoded using 8-bit values (ASCII-characters or '\HH) and/or Unicode values (\uHHHH).

• WordPerfect® 6.x for DOS: including Tibetan! Dzongkha! & Diacritics! files

Export Formats

• UDP Native formats: Unicode text with markers for Documents, Proprietary for Databases; Protected for both Documents and Databases

• Unicode Text formats: UTF-16 for Windows (Little Endian), UTF-16 for MAC (Big Endian), UTF-8

• Unicode RTF format: one Unicode font for Tibetan/Dzongkha and another Unicode font for everything else

• 8-bit RTF format: Non-Tibetan/non-Dzongkha in the font of your choice (non-ANSI characters are written as Unicode) and Tibetan/Dzongkha written using any of the following 8-bit font sets:
  • TibetanMachine, TibetanCaligraphic, TibetanClassic, DzongkhaCaligraphic
  • Tibetan Modern A
  • Robillard (Ltibetan, etc)

• HTML format: any one of the following
  • Unicode for both Tibetan/Dzongkha and non-Tibetan/non-Dzongkha; fonts can be left up to the browser or specified.
  • ANSI (with Unicode for non-ANSI) and the font specified or left up to the browser; Tibetan/Dzongkha in any of the following 8-bit fonts:
    • TibetanMachine, TibetanCaligraphic, TibetanClassic, DzongkhaCaligraphic
    • TibetanMachineWeb
    • Tibetan Modern A
    • Robillard (Ltibetan, etc)
  E-mail can be generated as HTML in any of the above formats as well.

• Tibetan Text using a single Tibetan font's encoding from the following:
  • TibetanMachine
  • TibetanMachineWeb
  • Tibetan Modern A
  • Ltibetan

• Raw or CSV (Comma Separated Values) Text: for Database export (non-Tibetan)

• Tibetan Braille text

• WordPerfect® 6.x for DOS: compatible with Tibetan! Dzongkha! & Diacritics!

• ACIP text