From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> At 04:11 -0800 2003-11-12, Peter Kirk wrote:
>
> >But is this a cipher ("it was intended as a form of secret writing"),
>
> No. But it wouldn't be encoded until it got at least as popular as
Shavian.I doubt that ewellic will become more popular than IPA, which has much more distinctive glyphs and is then much easier to read (and also to write by hand without confusion as the Ewellic glyphs has most of its glyphs that can easily be mixed if not drawn with extreme caution, so that half oblique or horizontal strokes do not cross by accident the main vertical bar, and these qualifying strokes also must use a very precise angle). The result is that Exellic will be usable only with some fonts (there's too little acceptable variability) and only if rendered machanically or electronically. What is strange is that the author says he could use it with handwritten script. This requires handwriting skills (possibly artistic drawing skills) that very few people have or need to communicate. Ewellic may be considered as a (incomplete) cipher of IPA, except for digits where it is a cipher of European digits.
