Preview of Unicode 7.0 ()

Scripts of the Bassa and Mende languages are on tap for the release of Unicode 7.0 next month:
http://babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/whats-new-in-unicode-70.html. Early testing of Bassa Vah in OpenOffice has gone fairly well, and the user community is looking forward to being able to use it more widely. For more background on the Kikakui script of the Mende, see Tuchscherer (1995): http://www.jstor.org/stable/1771691.

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