Re: ConScript Unicode Registry ( x: TECH: Unicode 5.1)

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Nomad of Norad -- David C Hall
<nomad-conlang@...> wrote:
> Henrik Theiling wrote:
>  > Or maybe one should ask for reservation for a (large) area
>  > specifically for conlangs so that we had a way around using the
>  > private use areas, which are technically not for interchanging text.
>  > This way, there would be an official place where we could then
>  > semi-officially be secondary script registrar.
>  >
>
>  Actually, didn't they /already/ reserve a large part of Unicode space for
> conlang use?
>
>  http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/
That's the private-use area, which - as Henrik said - is less than
ideal, since private-use characters are "technically not for
interchanging text".

I seem to recall reading that there are problems, for example, with
setting PUC to be right-to-left, or to use some of them as combining
diacritics, since PUC have very few properties specified by Unicode.

>  Looks like what Henrik Theiling was suggesting we create already exists!
> :D
Sort of, only in a way that would work better.

Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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