----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Miikka-Markus Alhonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 7:38 PM Subject: Re: Colourful scripts
> Miikka-Markus Alhonen scripsit: > > > Anyone interested in preparing an encoding proposal? > > This is awfully marginal, it seems to me, not so much because of the colors > (which are letter features, like crossbars, bowls, etc. in other scripts), > but because except for "gb" (which is effectively a single grapheme, > "g" being otherwise unused), this looks very much like an encipherment > of the Latin-based orthography. > > The pigpen/Masonic cipher (see > http://www.gchq.gov.uk/codebreaking/answers3.html for one common variant > -- there are many) is analogous, though suited to English rather than Edo. But how _do_ you code pigpen in unicode? It is indeed clear that it should not be considered another alphabet but just a font for the latin alphabet, and that it thusly should get no own codepoints. But you still need to pick one of the variants as the _plaintext_ (in crypto sense) variant, and then you can deem the others to be crypted by monoalphabetic substitution. I think the variant used in FAM-Code.ttf is a good choice for the plaintext variant. http://www.odr.org/anonymous/fam-code.htm > -- > All Norstrilians knew what laughter was: John Cowan > it was "pleasurable corrigible malfunction". http://www.reutershealth.com > --Cordwainer Smith, _Norstrilia_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
