In the meantime, a part of the Private Use Area has been assigned for encoding, so these characters can be placed in typefaces for testing and to speed up the later transition to the final encodings (if the project is accepted). ![]() To prevent the possibility of corruption of the source texts, the eventual goal of the MUFI is to create a consensus on which characters to encode, and then present a completed proposal to the Unicode Consortium. Since few fonts support medieval ligatures or alternative letter forms, it is difficult to transmit them reliably in digital formats. As few of these characters are encoded in Unicode, ligatures have to be broken up into separate letters when digitized. In medieval texts, many special ligatures, scribal abbreviations, and letter forms existed, which are no longer a part of the Latin alphabet. Currently the board consists of Tarrin Wills, Copenhagen (Chair), Alex Speed Kjeldsen, Copenhagen (Deputy chair), Odd Einar Haugen, Bergen and Beeke Stegmann, Iceland. ![]() From 2006 to 2015, MUFI had a board of four members, consisting of the three founding members and Andreas Stötzner ( Leipzig). MUFI was founded in July 2001 by a workgroup consisting of Odd Einar Haugen ( Bergen), Alec McAllister ( Leeds), and Tarrin Wills ( Sydney). ![]() ( September 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.
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