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I posted last week on Tibetan keyboard support on the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system. I’m a big fan of progress with personal computing when it comes to script support, so Tibetan keyboards are a good sign, even if I have no reason to type Tibetan. Hell, I still can’t easily type IPA on my iPod, though I did find a way to cheat. And I get really frustrated when something as simple and common as Arabic gets mis-rendered as late as 2011. We should have figured out how to make this consistently work by now.

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