Re: ConScript Unicode Registry
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 11, 2008, 19:54 |
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Hallo!
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:12:00 +0100, David McCann wrote:
> "Systems vendors and/or software developers may need to reserve
> some private-use characters for internal use by their software."
Which probably means, if I understand it correctly, that some
of the CSUR characters may trigger some kind of internal "magic"
in a web browser or other application that tries to read a text
containing them :(
> The other problem is that most of the scripts registered sink without
> trace. Apart from Tengwar, Cirth, Klingon, and Vedurian, most of the
> links given are now broken. There doesn't seem to be much sense in
> registering scripts unless there is a real community of users, not just
> a proud inventor. I can see why Unicode is cautious.
Yes. I also notice how many codepoints have been gobbled up by
the creations of a single conlanger! The problem is that there
are so many conscripts with so few users that the whole enterprise
becomes impractical and pointless.
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