Noto Font support for Vietnamese Nôm

[Ava Strife]

Hello,

I hope this email finds you well.

I am a Vietnamese person and I have uncovered a personal interest in the historical writing system of Vietnamese called Hàn-Nôm.

It is a logographic character system consisting of Hàn characters (chinese characters) and Nôm characters (native Vietnamese characters).

Of course with Hanzi and Kanji being regularly used in modern life in China and Japan among other places, the aforementioned Hàn characters have no issues being displayed since they are the same exact thing.

However, the issue in font support comes into play with Nôm characters. These are unique characters specifically created to write Vietnamese words in which Chinese characters could not or were insufficient.

Sometimes they are just Hàn characters with slight modification. Other times they are completely unique characters.

A good number of Nôm is already supported on native operating systems. 

However, there are certainly a large number of characters that cannot be viewed without the user manually installing the requisite fonts. 

I have spoken with an eminent figure in this subject, Lee Collins, who has worked at both Google, Apple, and Unicode on the topic of CJKV digitization.

He has told me that in general, we are very close to fully codifying Nôm into Unicode.

At this point, the next critical juncture is to get Noto Font support for Nôm.

Lee Collins also founded an organization called NomFoundation, which seeks to preserve this old Vietnamese writing system. 

NomFoundation also has their own font called "Nom Na Tong" for displaying many unsupported characters. 

Please reference it here: http://www.nomfoundation.org/nom-tools/Nom-Font?uiLang=en

Another good font is called "Han Nom Minh" created by a group that seeks to revive Hàn-Nôm in Vietnamese education. 

Please reference their website (and font) here: http://www.hannom-rcv.org/

I explain this to ask, how can we get one of these fonts into the Noto Fonts standard?

This will be a key step in getting Nôm modernized and accessible to Vietnamese people. 

I hope you can help elucidate the process for me. 

Thank you very much.