Hi Jerome,
> I'm currently typesetting a book written in Jarai (var. Jrai, J'rai), a
> tribal language used in the highlands of Vietnam; besides using characters
> already accounted for in the Vietnamese script, the written Jarai language
> uses several characters that are, to my knowledge, unique to it (and a small
> group of other tribal languages from this area). Among these are a, e, i,
> u, and o accented with both a circumflex and a breve (circumflex under
> breve), b with a stroke, breved, horned o, breved, horned u, and
> circumflexed, horned u (all in both lower- and upper-case variants).
>
> I think that these characters fit the guidelines to be included in the
> Unicode standard, but, then again, I'm fairly new to the Unicode world, and
> could be horribly mistaken. Any advice, and most thoughts, would be
> greatly appreciated.
You should be able to represent the Latin-based writings of Việt Nam's minority languages by using combining diacritical marks (U+0300 to U+036F).
The challenge is to find/create the fonts that will faithfully render the resulting characters other than by superimposing the diacritical marks.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
James Đỗ
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