Suzanne, > Can people from the review committee give me some hard and fast rules for > when something is thrown out?
As Michael Everson indicated, the answer to this is probably not. However, perhaps the most important thing for serious script proposers to do, to see if what they are concerned about might be acceptable, is to consult the Roadmap: http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/ If a script is listed there in the Roadmap for the BMP or for Plane 1, then people can be assured that interested members of the encoding committees have *already* made a tentative determination that the script is suitable for encoding, although a proposal may not actually exist yet, and of course, there are no guarantees until the committees actually do the work on fully filled-out formal proposals. But if a "script", like the MIIB BurgerKing cipher mentioned today, or chess diagram notation, is missing from the Roadmap, there is probably a *good* reason for it not to be there, and people should think twice (and then again) before they start proposing it for encoding in Unicode. --Ken Another "missing" example: The "voice which shook the earth", from Chapter IV, verse 44 of LIBER LIBERI vel LAPIDIS LAZULI ADUMBRATIO KABBAL� �GYPTIORUM, one of the Holy Books of Thelema: http://www.nuit.org/thelema/Library/HolyBooks/LibVII.html Disclaimer: The UTC New Scripts committee does not discriminate among script applicants on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or veteran status. However, if they are risible, we reserve the right to laugh. ;-)
