The great Michael Everson (was: Reformed Latin-script writing...)

"Daniel A. Wier" wrote:

> Then click the Proposed New Scripts link.  It might be there.
Nope, but the proposal is at http://www.egt.ie/standards/ch/ch.html .

The http://www.egt.ie site, Michael Everson's, has a wealth of information
on the encoding of obscure scripts and many other things.

Wanna know why thorn is the 27th letter of the alphabet for
multinational sorting purposes?

http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso10646/wynnyogh/thorn.html

What about the difference between yogh and ezh, formerly merged
in Unicode but now properly separated?

http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso10646/wynnyogh/ezhyogh.html

How about the magic spell in the film _Excalibur_?  (It's Old Irish,
probably the only OI on film anywhere.)

http://www.egt.ie/misc/charm.html

And he writes Klingon poetry too.

http://www.egt.ie/misc/jI'ojtaH-nuqvaD.html

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