The script is mainly used today for copying lontar or palm leaf manuscripts containing religious texts.

[7] The pillar is dated according to the Indian Shaka era, on the seventh day of the waxing half ('saptāmyāṁ sita') of the month Phalguna of the Śaka year 835, which corresponds to 4 February 914 CE as calculated by Louis-Charles Damais.

Each consonant has a conjunct form called gantungan which nullifies the inherent vowel of the previous syllable.

[10][11] Punctuation includes a comma, period, colon, as well as marks to introduce and end section of a text.

Musical notation uses letter-like symbols and diacritical marks in order to indicate pitch information.

[1] There is also a set of "holy letters" called aksara modre which appears in religious texts and protective talismans.

For example, the letter ᬦ (na) with bisah (◌ᬄ) becomes ᬦᬄ (nah); ᬓ (ka) with suku (◌ᬸ) and surang (◌ᬃ) becomes ᬓᬸᬃ (kur).

Compared to Devanagari, bisah is analogous to visarga, cecek to anusvara, and adeg-adeg to virama.

Adeg-adeg, as virama in Devanagari, suppress the inherent vowel /a/ in the consonant letter.

The preservation of original orthography result on several rules: Assimilation in Balinese occurs within the conjuncts/consonant clusters.

These combination, rě [rə] and lě [lə], should be written as ᬋ (re repa) and ᬍ (le lenga).

[17] The Sasak language, spoken in Lombok Island east of Bali, is related to Balinese, is written in a version of the Balinese script known as Aksara Sasak, which is influenced by the Javanese script[18] and is given additional characters for loanwords of foreign origin.

[19] Bali Simbar is first font for Balinese script by I Made Suatjana Dipl Ing at 1999.

[19] Bali Simbar and JG Aksara Bali, in particular, may cause conflicts with other writing systems, as the font uses code points from other writing systems to complement Balinese's extensive repertoire as Balinese script was not included in Unicode at the creation time.

[20][19] Aksara Bali by Khoi Nguyen Viet is the first hacked Unicode Balinese font with a brute-force OpenType implementation.

[19] The team of Aditya Bayu Perdana, Ida Bagus Komang Sudarma, and Arif Budiarto has created a small series of Balinese fonts: Tantular Bali, Lilitan, and Geguratan, all using hacked Unicode and a brute-force OpenType implementation.

[21] However, Noto Sans Balinese exhibits several critical flaws, such as an inability to correctly display more than one diacritic per consonant.

[19] The free font Bali Galang, maintained by Bemby Bantara Narendra, displays correctly apart from the consonant-spanning vowels ⟨o⟩ and ⟨au⟩.

However, those vowels can be manually substituted by their graphic components, ⟨é⟩ and ⟨ai⟩ followed by the length sign (tedung), which together display as ⟨o⟩ and ⟨au⟩.

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