On 3 Nov 2016, at 23:43, Mark Shoulson <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Everson: I basically copied your 1997 proposal into the document, > with some minor changes. I hope you don't mind.
I do not. > And if you don't want to be on the hook for providing the glyphs to UTC, I > can do that. I think that proposal should serve as a starting-point for > discussion anyway. I’m in. > 1. the "SYMBOL FOR EMPIRE" also known as the "MUMMIFICATION GLYPH". I don't > know where the second name comes from, I don't know how important it is to > encode it, and I don't know how much of a trademark headache it will cause > with Paramount, as it is used pretty heavily in their imagery. Something > we'll have to talk about. I’d leave it out for now. > 2. I put in the COMMA and FULL STOP, which were not in the original proposal > but were in the ConScript registry entry. Yes, those have been adopted since 1997. > The examples I have show them clearly being used. UTC may decide to unify > them with existing triangular shapes, which may or may not be a good idea. As they are punctuation, I think it unlikely. > 3. For my part, I've invented a pair of ampersands for Klingon (Klingon has > two words for "and": one for joining verbs/sentences and one for joining > nouns (the former goes between its "conjunctands", the latter after them)), > from ligatures of the letters in question. The pretty much have NO usage, of > course (and are not in the proposal), but maybe they should be presented to > the community. That’s up to you. Adoption is a matter for the user community. > Let the bickering begin! may’ malujpu'. veS maQap. Michael Everson
