Re: Deseret Alphabet [was: Re: Regularized Inglish]

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, John Cowan wrote:

> dirk elzinga scripsit:
>
> > The Mormon connection is correct; you're talking about the Deseret
> > Alphabet.
>
> It will almost certainly be in Unicode 4.0, when the first "astral
> plane" (rare and obsolete scripts) characters are added.  John Jenkins
> at Apple is working on it.  See
> http://www.unicode.org/pending/deseret/Deseret.html ,
> where may be a found a Deseret Language Kit for Macs and a Windows font.
I downloaded it about two years ago; it looks good, but it requires a
different keyboard than that used by the Macintosh OS. That's my only
quibble with it (perhaps unavoidable with Unicode?). I made my version
of the Deseret Alphabet before I heard of Jenkin's Deseret Language Kit.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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