# Shaidur Unicode

Shaidur Unicode is a font for 17th century Znamenny Notation
(Type B Notation according to the classification of I. Gardner).
The font is named after the medieval theoretician of Znamenny chant
[Ivan Shaidur](https://bigenc.ru/music/text/1998353).

## Author

The glyphs were created by Nikita Simmons and reencoded for Unicode by
Aleksandr Andreev.

## Disclaimer

This font is alpha-phase software, and is intended for software testing purposes only.

## Encoding

Znamenny and related notation systems are not yet available in Unicode.
As an encoding model is developed, the notation symbols are temporarily
encoded in the Private Use Area portion of Unicode for testing purposes.
See the [Ponomar Private Use Area Policy](http://www.ponomar.net/files/pua_policy.pdf)
for information and codepoints.

