> 3. Even when 13 comes out, fonts won't be immediately and magically > updated to include them.
In this case, though, several fonts actually already include TAGALOG LETTER RA. :) "This spot, U+170D, has become a *de facto* standard among *baybayin* writers in the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora. Several modern fonts, including the one that appears on Philippine currency to write the word *Pilipino*, use U+170D as a ‘ra’. (See §0.13) Software, if it can output ['ra'], uses U+170D. (See §0.14) Documents online, if they include ['ra'], most often have it encoded as U+170D." (L2/19-258R, page 6) This proposal was special in that it was asking the Unicode Consortium to recognize a character that was already being used unofficially, so that organizations like the Google Noto team who are sticklers for Unicode compliance would include it. :)