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@daveonc Ah, all Unicode text. If you're viewing from an Android device (Android 10+) there's a built-in font "Noto" by Google which covers more or less 80% of the entire Unicode characters.

The font for Baybayin, for the Tagalog variant is "Noto Tagalog".

For iOS, I'm not sure which font they're using and which version of iOS supports the 4 Baybayin variants included in Unicode.

For desktops, you can install the Noto family from the official site: https://notofonts.github.io

Or, just the Baybayin variants:
- Noto Tagalog
- Noto Tagbanwa
- Noto Buhid
- Noto Hanunoó

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Yep, in government-approved curriculum and text books, it's called "Alibata", which is unfortunately incorrect. 😅 I'm not sure if they corrected the curriculum and text books after it gained attention of the media in 2016/17.

But, yeah, it's a good one to (re)-learn, especially since it's well-known abroad (with papers written, talks, and so on) and there are foreigners who can read and write it better than majority of us Filipinos. 😅😅

It's also interesting because it reshapes our way of thinking and processing writing scripts. So, it helps in also learning other writing scripts if one wants to pursue it. Baybayin is easiest to learn since there are fewer rules and characters, than compared to Hebrew, Korean, and Japanese.