Editing Tengwar (section)

=== Legacy encoding ===

The contemporary [[de facto]] standard in the Tengwar user community maps the Tengwar characters onto the [[ISO 8859-1]] character encoding following the example of the Tengwar typefaces by Dan Smith. This implies a major flaw: If no corresponding Tengwar font is installed, a [[mojibake|string of nonsense characters]] appears.

Since there are not enough places in ISO 8859-1's 191 codepoints for all the signs used in Tengwar orthography, certain signs are included in a "Tengwar A" font which also maps its characters on ISO 8859-1, overlapping with the first font.

For each Tengwar diacritic, there are four different codepoints that are used depending on the width of the character which bears it.

Other Tengwar typefaces with this encoding include [http://www.dafont.com/Tengwar-annatar.font Johan Winge's Tengwar Annatar], [https://web.archive.org/web/20080515024319/http://at.mansbjorkman.net/parmaite.htm Måns Björkman's Tengwar Parmaitë], [https://web.archive.org/web/20091027083304/http://geocities.com/enrombell/eng_dir/Index.htm  Enrique Mombello's Tengwar Élfica] or [https://web.archive.org/web/20061023195729/http://Tengwarformal.limes.com.pl/ Michal Nowakowski's Tengwar Formal] (note that most of these differ in details).

The following sample shows the first article of the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]] written in English, according to the traditional [[English orthography]]. It should look similar to the picture at the [[#top|top of the page]], but if no Tengwar font is installed, it will appear as a jumble of characters because the corresponding ISO 8859-1 characters will appear instead.

<blockquote style="font-family: 'Tengwar Annatar', 'Tengwar Eldamar', 'Tengwar Noldor', 'Tengwar Parmaite', 'Tengwar Formal', 'Tengwar Elfica', 'Tengwar Sindarin', 'Tengwar Quenya', 'Tengwar Gothika'; font-size: 150%; line-height: 150%">
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