At 04:45 PM 3/16/02, Doug Ewell wrote: >But right away that definition includes not only Shavian, Tengwar, >Cirth, Klingon, and most of the contents of ConScript, but also >Ethiopic, Cherokee, Canadian Syllabics, Gothic, Deseret, and maybe Yi >Syllabics, all of which are already encoded in Unicode.
And iirc Cyril and Methodius were people, although their script was based on Greek and continued to evolve. >An alternative working definition of "synthetic script" that means "one >invented to support a work of fiction" would be inappropriately aimed at >the Star Trek and Tolkein scripts. If one regards the Bible as a work of fiction, even more scripts could be added to this list. I agree with Michael Everson that we are talking about the *Universal* Character Set. The "Good-Return-on-Investment Character Set" or the "Important to Us Character Set" might also be useful to some people, but they will not be universal. -- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ Mockingbird Font Works http://www.mockfont.com/
