On 14 Apr 2019, at 17:41, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> 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
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