With the release of Unicode 16.0 this September, I may finally be able to use my own language’s script. But I am not sure if OSes will directly support the latest version of Unicode immediately. How long should I expect these changes to be available on my local OS?
With that being said, I would like to work on creating my own font, maybe also migrate a few corpuses from the wrong script to the original, new one, as well as work on transliteration.
All of this is impossible for a single person - but I would like to take it slowly. What would be a good place to start? Do I need to keep anything else in mind while starting on this journey?
ICU & CLDR is an excellent place to start for anyone who wants to help out with support for any not yet well supported script and/or language, for those libraries and that data are what a lot of other things are built upon (like Android, iOS, Windows and macOS, to take four of the largest and most well known examples).
To get in touch and offer to volunteer, sending a mail to the icu-support public mailing list can be a good starting point: https://icu.unicode.org/contacts