The following, which appeared on Old-Irish-L, may be of interest :
From: Caoimhin O Donnaile caoimhin@SMO.UHI.AC.UK Subject: Proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3027.pdf "Proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS" by Michael Everson et al. http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3039.doc
[People involved in indexing transcriptions of old manuscripts, adding them to databases, etc, will probably be interested in the above two documents. They deal with a proposal to add to the Universal Character Set (Unicode) many more abbreviation and other characters used in medieval manuscripts. If you have comments and don't know where to send them, send them to me and I'll pass them on.]
Caoimhín