Hai all!

No offense meant to anyone personally, but why does Unicode seem to be
biased against scripts devised for conlangs?  To the best of my
knowledge, *every
single time* such a script's been proposed for inclusion, it's ultimately
been rejected (albeit with different levels of vehemence - Klingon and
Sarati both ended up on the Not the Roadmap hall of shame [Klingon from
each of *two separate* proposals], Sitelen Pona was merely rejected, and
Tengwar and Corth actually made it into the roadmap to the SMP only to
languish there for years before eventually being removed earlier this
spring), even for those (like Klingon) with an active user base
considerably larger than those of some obscure natural-language scripts
that *do* get encoded.  (In contrast, conlangs that use an existing script
do *occasionally* get their language-specific letters encoded, such as the
Volapük-specific Latin letters already published in Unicode.)


- Vikki McDonough 🏳️‍⚧️

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