Doug Ewell wrote,
> .... If you visit the official Web site for the "Lord of the Rings"
> movie at <http://www.thelordoftherings.com> and click on "Tengwar Links," you
> will discover the following links:
>
> > Unicode Standard: Cirth ConScript
> > Unicode specifications of the Cirith [sic] script.
> >
> > Unicode Standard: Tengwar ConScript
> > Unicode specifications of the Tengwar script.
>
> So now a whole lot of Tolkien fans, old and new, are going to find these
> links to the CSUR pages for Tengwar and Cirth, without knowing the difference
> between Unicode and ConScript and without seeing the main CSUR page that
> explains this difference, and will conclude that these two Elvish scripts are
> officially encoded in Unicode. ...
Both of the ConScript Registry pages say:
"...it has been suggested that this character set be
included into the Unicode standard and ISO 10646."
...which is fairly subtle if a reader hasn't seen the ConScript
home page.
Thelordoftherings.com's web master might consider noting in
some way that the ConScript encoding's aren't official, but
are rather an ad hoc agreement among users for code points
in the "Private Use Area" of Unicode.
Based on the counters on the web site's home page, it is a very
popular site.
With best regards,
James Kass.
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