Re: Lilipu: The Bonsai Language

Viktor Medrano wrote at 2003-12-30 02:39:11 (-0500)
 > On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 02:09:19 -0500, John Cowan <cowan@...>
 > wrote:
 >
 > >
 > >I think it's cool to use Tagalog script for this.  You know that
 > >it's now encoded in Unicode?
 > >
 > >U+1700 is 'a, U+1701 is 'i, and U+1702 is 'u.  U+1703 is k, U+1709
 > >is p, U+170B is m, U+170E is l, and U+170F is w.  U+1712 is the
 > >i-dot, and U+1713 is the u-dot.
 > >
 >
 > Thanks.  Yeah, I heard about it.  I suppose one needs a special Unicode
 > font, though...

That shouldn't be _too_ much problem, actually. There's a selection of
nice free unicode fonts for that range here:

http://www.mts.net/~pmorrow/fonts.htm

You may have more problems finding software that will support it.  And
of course, people won't be able to see it on the web without the
fonts, although you could direct them to the page above.