Information Technology
Between 2000 and 2004, the Foundation managed and co-financed with the Royal Government of Bhutan, the Swiss Development Cooperation Agency, and Microsoft Corporation a joint project to develop technical tools for the integration of support for the national language of Bhutan (Dzongkha) in Microsoft Windows, based on the Unicode standard. The technical developments made during this project played a major role in the integration of support for Tibetan script computing now implemented in Microsoft's Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.
Since the completion of this joint initiative, support for Tibetan script computing has been implemented in Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Linux operating systems.
Dzongkha Computing Project (2000 - 2004), Bhutanese Project Personnel
The Education Minister, Lyonpo Sangay Ngedup, (2nd row 3rd from right), Director
General of the Dzongkha Development Authority, Dasho Sangay Dorji, (2nd row 2nd
from right), Department of Information Technology representative (far left),
calligrapher (1st row second from right) and Bhutanese technical trainees.
Following the release of Microsoft's Vista operating system in January 2007, comprehensive support for computing in Dzongkha and Tibetan is now available in Windows operating systems, in Microsoft Office and other applications.
Letter of appreciation from Dasho Sangay Dorje, Director General of the Dzongkha Development Authority:
