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by henryackerman 1815 days ago
Interesting example, had no idea what to expect when I clicked.
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FWIW, Mongolian is normally written using Cyrillic alphabet these days, which you can see in practice if you remove /mng/ from that URL: https://president.mn/

The old script is a very interesting test case, though. Since it's an alphabet, and it has varying letter shapes for different positions, as well as ligatures, it has all the same complexities as Western scripts - but then it's vertical on top of that. Few software can handle that well.