Thanks to the many people who have taken the time to offer comments
and suggestions both on and off this list, we've arrived at a consensus
which we believe will satisfy the needs of implementers and
experimenters without violating any protocols.
This is what has been done:
The font Code2001 has been revised and as before contains a number of
scripts for experimental purposes. Those which have been approved by
Unicode in Plane One are, of course, at at their designated codepoints.
Those which have not, including Tengwar and Cirth, are now encoded
in Plane 15 and, if they have been so proposed, in the BMP PUA.
Existing test pages for provisional scripts have been revised.
Since Plane Fifteen codepoints are GUARANTEED not to be the final, official
encoding positions, it is hoped that when this is clearly indicated there will
be no confusion.
the font:
http://home.att.net/~jameskass/CODE2001.ZIP
some test pages:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/oring.html
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/cirth.html
http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example-plane1.html
http://home.att.net/~jameskass/cirthtest.htm
http://home.att.net/~jameskass/tengwartest.htm
Comments are welcome.
Best regards,
James Kass, sending this letter which was written by:
Tom Gewecke,
James Kass,
and Tex Texin.
Beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>
To: "Unicoders" <unicode@unicode.org>; "James Kass" <jameskass@worldnet.att.net>; "Tom Gewecke" <tom@bluesky.org>; "Tex Texin"
<texin@progress.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: Tengwar added to Plane1 Unicode Demo Page
> Thanks for all the comments on Tengwar. James, Tom and I have been
> discussing the mails offlist and deciding what the fix will be. I don't
> think we need further comments on the appropriateness of including it in
> what is billed as a Unicode demo page. I'll get back to you with the
> plan to address it. It is taking a little while longer than you might
> expect, as I have some other commitments (my day job).
>
> As for the discussion of which languages a Hobbit can read and write,
> and what script they would use, it seems to me that would be a great
> paper for IUC21 if someone is up to it.
>
> Regards,
> tex
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Tex Texin Director, International Business
> mailto:Texin@Progress.com Tel: +1-781-280-4271
> the Progress Company Fax: +1-781-280-4655
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> For a compelling demonstration for Unicode:
> http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example.html
>
>
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