Hi Jerome, > I'm currently typesetting a book written in Jarai (var. Jrai, J'rai), a > tribal language used in the highlands of Vietnam; besides using characters > already accounted for in the Vietnamese script, the written Jarai language > uses several characters that are, to my knowledge, unique to it (and a small > group of other tribal languages from this area). Among these are a, e, i, > u, and o accented with both a circumflex and a breve (circumflex under > breve), b with a stroke, breved, horned o, breved, horned u, and > circumflexed, horned u (all in both lower- and upper-case variants). > > I think that these characters fit the guidelines to be included in the > Unicode standard, but, then again, I'm fairly new to the Unicode world, and > could be horribly mistaken. Any advice, and most thoughts, would be > greatly appreciated.
You should be able to represent the Latin-based writings of Việt Nam's minority languages by using combining diacritical marks (U+0300 to U+036F). The challenge is to find/create the fonts that will faithfully render the resulting characters other than by superimposing the diacritical marks. Hope this helps. Cheers, James Đỗ
