At 3:50 AM +0100 7/6/01, David Starner wrote:
>A lot of the arguments against Klingon weren't specificially against
>Klingon; they were more against any fictional scripts in Unicode.
True, but the criterion being applied by the UTC is whether or not
there are users of the script who wish to exchange data using it.
There are also periodic objections from various states to providing
characters or scripts used by minority languages which they wish
would go away. Unicode's criteria are different.
>The
>editorial response to comments from national groups, in the public archive
>of ISO 10646 stuff that you linked to at the start of this message, included
>a complaint about Deseret from the German Standards body, in that it was
>inappropriate for being a fictional script.
Excuse me??!?
>The response to that was
>bascially "Not really", IIRC. That does not bode well for lack of contention
>for later scripts.
>
Deseret is a bad example to use. Deseret is *not* a fictional
script. It *is* a modern invented script with slight current
utility, but it *does* have people who want to use it, and there is a
surprisingly large body of diaries and other historical records from
the 19th century written using it.
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