On 14 Apr 2019, at 17:41, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)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