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The Nuosu SIL Font is a Unicode font for the standardized Yi script used by a large ethnic group in southwestern China. The font was formerly named SIL Yi.The traditional Yi scripts have been in use for centuries, and have a tremendous number of local variants. The script was standardized in the 1970s by the Chinese government. In the process of standardization, 820 symbols from the traditional scripts of the Liangshan region were chosen to form a syllabary. The Nuoso SIL font includes the complete set of Yi syllables and radicals defined in The Unicode Standard, including the later additions made to version 3.2 of the Standard. A basic set of Roman glyphs and various punctuation is also included. Nuosu SIL is designed to work on systems and with applications that provide support for TrueType fonts and for Unicode character encoding. It does not include any smart font behavior. It is freely available and may be used by anyone at no cost. It is released under the SIL Open Font License, a free and open source license that permits modification and redistribution.
