Can you explain how to use these in practice?

[wu-lee]

Hello - came here via here looking for Sitelen Pona fonts, and what I found was pretty amazing, but also mystifying.

I initially assumed the conversion of, say, "toki pona" text in latin1 into glyphs rendering as sitelen pona utilised javascript somehow, but as far as I can see the javascript such that there is just copies text from one textarea into another.

I was wondering, does it work in font-aware text editors? Word processors? Well, apparently it does, if I download the .ttf and use it in LibreOffice, which I never knew was possible.

However if I save the text in a text editor using sitelen seli kiwen, it's saved as latin1. I guess I have to find the code points for the sitelen pona glyphs and insert those somehow? This is something I don't even know what to google for.

Can you explain a bit how that works, perhaps with pointers to background reading? I'm sure I won't be the only one.

Thanks!