Editing Insular script (section)

==Unicode==

{{Special characters|Unicode}}
Unicode treats representation of letters of the [[Latin alphabet]] written in insular script as a typeface choice that needs no separate coding.<ref name="Everson" /> Only a few Insular letters have specific code-points because they are used by phonetic specialists. To render the full alphabet correctly, a suitable [[display font]] should be chosen. To display the specialist characters, there are several fonts that may be used; three free ones that support these characters are [[Junicode]], Montagel, and Quivira. [[Gentium]] and [[Charis SIL]] support the alphabetic letters (U+A77x and U+A78x).

According to [[Michael Everson]], in the 2006 Unicode proposal for these characters:<ref name="Everson">{{cite web |last=Everson |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Everson |title=N3122: Proposal to add Latin letters and a Greek symbol to the UCS |url= https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06266-n3122-insular.pdf |publisher=ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 |date=6 August 2006 |access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref> {{blockquote |text=To write text in an ordinary [[Gaelic type|Gaelic font]], only [[ASCII]] letters should be used, the font making all the relevant substitutions; the insular letters [proposed here] are for use only by specialists who require them for particular purposes.}}

{{Unicode chart Insular}}