Editing Balinese script (section)

==Fonts==
There are some fonts for Balinese script as of 2016. Bali Simbar, Bali Galang, JG Aksara Bali, Aksara Bali, Tantular Bali, Lilitan, Geguratan and Noto Sans Balinese are some fonts that included Balinese script. The fonts have different degree of compatibility each other, and most contain critical flaws.<ref name="Bringing Balinese to iOS" />

'''Bali Simbar''' is first font for Balinese script by I Made Suatjana Dipl Ing at 1999.<ref name="Bali Simbar">{{cite web|title=Aksara Bali|url=http://www.babadbali.com/aksarabali/downloads.htm|website=Bali Galang Foundation|access-date=24 March 2016}}</ref> Bali Simbar is not compatible for Mac-OS and Unicode.<ref name="Bali Simbar" /><ref name="Bringing Balinese to iOS">{{cite web|title=Bringing Balinese to iOS|url=http://norbertlindenberg.com/2015/10/bringing-balinese-to-ios/|website=Norbert's Corner|access-date=24 March 2016}}</ref> '''JG Aksara Bali''', was designed by Jason Glavy, has over 1400 Balinese glyphs, including a huge selection of precomposed glyph clusters.<ref name="Bringing Balinese to iOS" /> The latest version of JG Aksara Bali was released on 2003, thus has no compatibility with Unicode.<ref name="Bringing Balinese to iOS" /> Bali Simbar and JG Aksara Bali, in particular, may cause conflicts with other writing systems, as the font uses code points from other writing systems to complement Balinese's extensive repertoire as Balinese script was not included in Unicode at the creation time.<ref name="Bali Simbar" /><ref name="Bringing Balinese to iOS" />

'''Aksara Bali''' by Khoi Nguyen Viet is the first hacked Unicode Balinese font with a brute-force OpenType implementation. The results depend on how well other OpenType features are implemented in the renderer. The font has about 370 Balinese glyphs, but does not display the vowel {{angle bracket|é}} correctly.<ref name="Bringing Balinese to iOS" /> The team of Aditya Bayu Perdana, Ida Bagus Komang Sudarma, and Arif Budiarto has created a small series of Balinese fonts: '''Tantular Bali''', '''Lilitan''', and '''Geguratan''', all using hacked Unicode and a brute-force OpenType implementation. Tantular has about 400 Balinese glyphs.<ref name="Bringing Balinese to iOS" /> These all have serious flaws.<ref name="Bringing Balinese to iOS" />

Another Unicode font is '''Noto Sans Balinese''' from Google.<ref name="Noto Sans Balinese">{{cite web|title=Noto Sans Balinese|url=https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-bali|website=Google Noto Font|access-date=24 March 2016}}</ref> However, Noto Sans Balinese exhibits several critical flaws, such as an inability to correctly display more than one diacritic per consonant.<ref name="Bringing Balinese to iOS" />

The free font '''Bali Galang''', maintained by Bemby Bantara Narendra, displays correctly apart from the consonant-spanning vowels {{angle bracket|o}} and {{angle bracket|au}}. However, those vowels can be manually substituted by their graphic components, {{angle bracket|é}} and {{angle bracket|ai}} followed by the length sign (''tedung''), which together display as {{angle bracket|o}} and {{angle bracket|au}}. It also automatically assimilates some consonants within words. It displays corresponding Balinese glyphs instead of Latin letters.