On 14 Apr 2019, at 17:41, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
In the past the WMF has funded the creation of a Unicode font.
When?
Having a Unicode font is essential when we are to support it in MediaWiki. Not having a fully developed font is what hinders the necessary follow up of projects in SignWriting ie all the signed languages.
Actually there’s a reasonable font out there, though there’s lots of difficulties. I worked on the code chart font for SignWriting.
I do agree that a language with a default script not supported in Unicode is hugely problematic.
It could only be Private Use Characters. If a script exists, it should be encoded.
Encoding isn’t free.
Michael