Hoi,

In the past the WMF has funded the creation of a Unicode font. 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.

I do agree that a language with a default script not supported in Unicode is hugely problematic.

Thanks,

GerardM

On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 at 18:36, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

Hi,

I have a vague recollection that we require Unicode support to create a new language, but I cannot find it in the policy. Do we indeed require this explicitly, or am I just making things up?

Or is it just a de facto practicality—that it's technically difficult to host a language in a script that isn't supposed in Unicode?

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