Are there any conlang scripts, other than Sitelen Pona, that *do* get used?
On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 3:16 PM Michael De Roover <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 28 May 2026 20:35:45 Central European Summer Time Gabriel > Tellez > via Unicode wrote: > > Sure but Teyvat Script is, as you seem to have said, is 1 to 1 with > latin. > > So it has no need to be encoded in the first place. These other scripts > > (pIqaD, Tengwar, Cirth, Sarati) don't have that. > > Admittedly, I am not familiar with these franchises or their scripts. > Uncultured as I am however, the legality and usage issues do still stand. > > I do think it is worth considering them in context of Esperanto, which > despite > being a conlang did manage to secure itself a critical base of primary > speakers, and Unicode support. These languages could become like that too, > but > their communities will have to put in the work first to prove usefulness. > > From my developer standpoint, I don't mind certain ignorable parts of a > spec > existing, provided that I don't need to add those to my implementations. > By > that I mean that I don't mind inclusion of *some* aspects that I may > consider > to be cruft for my own implementation, provided that ignoring them is > allowed > by the spec. > > The other day I was working on an SMTP receiver, which will implement HELO/ > EHLO, MAIL, RCPT, DATA, QUIT, and RSET commands. There do exist other > commands > in the SMTP specs, which I will not implement and only gracefully refuse. > But > that graceful refusal does take decision on my end, as to how much I need > to > implement of those, and what I consider to be sufficiently cruft to ignore > while > remaining in spec. > > That decision-making on an individual implementer's part is my concern > here. I > believe that this is primarily a given standard's job. Any deviation > thereof, > even when it remains in spec, introduces uncertainty. And while I do > acknowledge each of these fandoms, including my own, I would not be > willing to > implement any of them unless required by my employer (which will > contractually > take the legal burden). While the fandoms of each of these franchises are > enormous, their conlangs' usefulness does not currently extend beyond > those > fandoms. And I would definitely not want to be sued by their rights > holders > over it, no matter how boneheaded the fandoms may be about it (and > Genshin's > is no different). Nor do I want Unicode to be exposed to that either. > > -- > [Met vriendelijke groet] [Best regards] > [Michael De Roover] > --- --- --- --- > [Mail] [*@nixmagic.com] [michael@[email protected]] > [Web] [https://michael.de.roover.eu.org] > [Forge] [https://git.nixmagic.com] > [Weather] [Antwerpen] [20:00] [24.5°C] > --- --- --- --- > [0] [2026-05-28 20:50 CEST] > [~] [[email protected]] > [$] [/usr/bin/sign-mail] [>_] > --- --- --- --- > > > >
