Set up your PC to show and write Batak script

Batak script is proposed to Unicode Technical Committee in 2008 by Michael Everson and Uli Kozok. Here is the proposal. It is now officially part of Unicode at block 1BC0 to 1BFF (see Wikipedia and character code tables and list of character names for The Unicode Standard, Version 8.0 at Uniode).

Here are two fonts available for Batak Unicode (see respective license at the source):

Pangunguran 1.05 by Michael Everson (source: http://evertype.com/fonts/batak/)

Surat Batak 1.2 by Uli Kozok (source: http://ulikozok.com/aksara-batak/batak-font/)

Here is how to make your computer show and write Batak script on Mac OS (I confirmed this on Mac 10.10.4 Yosemite).

1) Download keyboard layout files (the .keylayout and the .icns files) and drop them to ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts

2) Go to keyboard settings at System Preferences and activate the Batak QWERTY input source.

After the above steps, you should be able to see the following Batak word "horas" in Batak script:

ᯂᯬᯒᯘ᯲

Or, use this browser test for Unicode block Batak.