B. Technical -- General
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1a. New script? Name? | Yes. Buginese |
1b. Addition of characters to existing block?
Name? | No. |
2. Number of characters | 30 |
3. Proposed category | Category A |
4. Proposed level of implementation and
rationale | Level 2 as other Brahmic scripts |
5a. Character names included in proposal? | Yes |
5b. Character names in accordance with
guidelines? | Yes |
5c. Character shapes reviewable? | Yes |
6a. Who will provide computerized font? | Michael
Everson, Everson Gunn Teoranta |
6b. Font currently available? | Michael Everson,
Everson Gunn Teoranta |
6c. Font format? | TrueType |
7a. Are references (to other character sets, dictionaries,
descriptive texts, etc.) provided? | Yes. See http://idris.com/scripts/Bugis.html
A> and ftp://mp.cs.niu.edu/pub/henry/re
adme.txt |
7b. Are published examples (such as samples from
newspapers, magazines, or other sources) of use of proposed characters
attached? | No |
8. Does the proposal address other aspects of character
data processing? | Yes, sorting and the novel use of the VIRAMA are
discussed below. |
C. Technical -- Justification
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1. Contact with the user community? | Yes,
indirectly. |
2. Information on the user community? | Buginese is
used on the island of Sulawesi, mainly in the southwest. |
3a. The context of use for the proposed
characters? | Used to write the Bugis language. |
3b. Reference | Haarmann 1992, Faulmann 1990 |
4a. Proposed characters in current use? | Yes. |
4b. Where? | By people writing Bugis. |
5a. Characters should be encoded entirely in
BMP? | Yes. |
5b. Rationale | Accordance with the Roadmap. |
6. Should characters be kept in a continuous
range? | Yes |
7a. Can the characters be considered a presentation form of an
existing character or character sequence? | No. |
7b. Where? | |
7c. Reference | |
8a. Can any of the characters be considered to be similar
(in appearance or function) to an existing character? | No |
8b. Where? | |
8c. Reference | |
9a. Combining characters or use of composite sequences
included? | Yes, the usual Brahmic vowels. |
9b. List of composite sequences and their corresponding
glyph images provided? | No. The list will be provided at the PDAM
stage |
10. Characters with any special properties such as control
function, etc. included? | No |