So far we have not seen evidence that the Theban script is other than a cypher for the Latin script..
Define "cypher", or "cipher", and I will either provide evidence that the Theban script is not one or accept that, on your definition, it is one.
This has been done. Peter. It is a way of faking the glyphs of an alphabet with hard-to-recognize glyphs. Substitution cypher, for instance. Theban has a one-to-one relation with Latin, and is used as such
Deseret at least has the decency to spell English phonetically.
In the absence of a definition this discussion is meaningless.
Pointless perhaps.
Similarly if the definition is simply a whim as you implied
I stated it. I didn't imply it.
so a personal subjective choice against which there can be no evidence.
What, you want me to give you a loophole? Look, it took YEARS to get Nuskhuri disunified from Mkhedruli, and Coptic from Greek. It was troublesome to get YOGH disunified from EZH. I'm still working on Cyrillic KU and WE. You think I'm bothered about Theban? ESR's proposal shows it displayed *carved on objects*. You think that convinces me of a plain-text need for it, disunified from Latin?
Think again.
Was it a whim that Theban and Klingon were rejected?
Absolutely. Oh, certainly. Mm hmm. Yup.
Because the Theban letters will necessarily appear incorrectly in LTR order, as they are encoded in Unicode as Latin letters with strong LTR properties.
No different from Old Italic. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
