From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Nov 07 2008 - 02:43:38 CST
On 7 Nov 2008, at 08:28, vunzndi@vfemail.net wrote:
>>> From: Ben J. Bloomgren <ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com>
>>>
>> This is my first post to this list, and I had a question:
>>
>> Is the Bassa Vah script at all in Unicode?
Not yet.
>> If so, how are the tones indicated being that they are marked
>> inside a given vowel grapheme.
>> I'm not a technical person, so I'm just curious.
They would be encoded as combining diacritical marks, to be drawn in
the appropriate place in the font.
>> It would appear not Micheal (Everson) did produce something about
>> this see http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/bassa.pdf .
>
> Technically it is not too difficult to produce a font to do this.
>
> Some others might have a better idea why this has not progress any
> further so far.
Lack of resources and higher priorities on some other scripts.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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