The classical Nôm script of Viet Nam has begun to be encoded in the Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 standards, mainly through CJK Extensions A and B. Wide use of the Nôm script on computers remain impractical due to a lack of fonts and the inavailability of font technology to handle characters beyond the BMP. To overcome these difficulties and to enable the presentation of Nôm characters on existing systems, the XML-based SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) technology has been successfully used on the web site: http://nomfoundation.org/unicode/lookup.php . Such application does not require large fonts nor specialized technology on the user's system other than the SVG browser plugin. Consequently, this technique could be a model for making other ancient and less common scripts readily available for exploration by an eager audience, and for the process of standardization.