On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:06:14AM -0800, Michael Everson wrote:
Of those in the registry, I would guess only 8 (Tengwar, Cirth,
Engsvanyali, Shavian, Solresol, Visible Speech, Aiha, and Klingon) have any
claim to be added to Unicode. 78 columns, less than 624 characters to be
added.
These
Ar 13:56 -0800 2001-01-30, scrobh John Jenkins:
Of those in the registry, I would guess only 8 (Tengwar, Cirth,
Engsvanyali, Shavian, Solresol, Visible Speech, Aiha, and Klingon) have
any claim to be added to Unicode. 78 columns, less than 624 characters to be
added.
Don't forget Deseret,
Ar 14:54 -0800 2001-01-30, scrobh David Starner:
On a calmer note, how many script submissions does Unicode and the
ISO 10646 working group get now? How about from people outside Unicode
and the working group? What about outside the standards bodies?
The occasional Southeast Asian script we
Ar 12:19 -0800 2001-01-30, scrobh David Starner:
The ConScript registry (http://www.egt.ie/standards/csur/index.html) is a
place where constructed/artifical scripts can be registered in a way
that they can be publicially transfered (among those who recognize the
encoding, of course.)
"By
Ar 13:23 -0800 2001-01-30, scrobh Thomas Chan:
I don't think that CSUR is conclusive proof that there wouldn't be a
deluge of demands for encoding fictional or constructed scripts if the
likes of Tengwar or Klingon were encoded.
Well, I think what David was saying is that there don't seem to be
I'm curious: what are the historical scripts that have been proposed to
Unicode that only exist in a handful of documents (note that I define
handful as 20 or less)? Other than the Phaistos Disk "script," which may
not be a script at all (it seems odd that there would be a script in as
heavily
Ar 05:46 -0800 2001-01-31, scrobh P. T. Rourke:
I'm curious: what are the historical scripts that have been proposed to
Unicode that only exist in a handful of documents (note that I define
handful as 20 or less)?
Proto-Sinaitic, for instance. Possibly some of the badly-known South
American
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Michael Everson wrote:
Ar 13:23 -0800 2001-01-30, scríobh Thomas Chan:
I don't think that CSUR is conclusive proof that there wouldn't be a
deluge of demands for encoding fictional or constructed scripts if the
likes of Tengwar or Klingon were encoded.
Well, I think
On Wednesday, January 31, 2001, at 06:14 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
Ar 05:46 -0800 2001-01-31, scrobh P. T. Rourke:
I'm curious: what are the historical scripts that have been proposed to
Unicode that only exist in a handful of documents (note that I define
handful as 20 or less)?
a location as the Aegean
with only one example; it probably is a script, but I
would say that the jury is still out).
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On Wednesday, January 31, 2001, at 08:21 AM, P. T. Rourke wrote:
Thanks, but if you go back and read my original message, you'll find the
following sentences that continue from the point quoted by Mr. Everson:
Other than the Phaistos Disk "script," which may not
be a script at all (it
The Phaistos disk is either a sample of writing or it is a board game. But
as a board game it doesn't look very interesting.
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Ar 08:21 -0800 2001-01-31, scrobh P. T. Rourke:
Thanks, but if you go back and read my original message, you'll find the
following sentences that continue from the point quoted by Mr. Everson:
Other than the Phaistos Disk "script," which may not
be a script at all (it seems odd that there
Sure enough. And I'm certainly never going to criticize someone for
treating it as a script until it is proven otherwise - including for the
purposes of Unicode. But one has to admit that one excellent piece of
evidence that a script is a script is the existence of multiple texts, and
that in
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:02:29AM -0800, Elaine Keown wrote:
Hello,
What's the ConScript registry?
The ConScript registry (http://www.egt.ie/standards/csur/index.html) is a
place where constructed/artifical scripts can be registered in a way
that they can be publicially transfered
On Tuesday, January 30, 2001, at 12:19 PM, David Starner wrote:
Of those in the registry, I would guess only 8 (Tengwar, Cirth,
Engsvanyali, Shavian, Solresol, Visible Speech, Aiha, and Klingon) have
any
claim to be added to Unicode. 78 columns, less than 624 characters to be
added.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:23:02PM -0800, Thomas Chan wrote:
I don't think that CSUR is conclusive proof that there wouldn't be a
deluge of demands for encoding fictional or constructed scripts if the
likes of Tengwar or Klingon were encoded.
This is real life; we don't get much conclusive
In a message dated 2001-01-30 15:29:04 Pacific Standard Time,
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For example, it is easy to
find a variety of fonts for fantasy runes or other alphabets that people
have created, some based off a description in published fiction, but they
have not gotten in
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