On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:00:44AM +0100, Stefan Persson wrote:
> Is there any chance that Tengwar and Cirth might become parts of the UCS?
Michael Everson seems to think there is. As Michael Everson has been the
driving force behind many of the scripts in Unicode, he should know.
> Would it even be *legal* to
> include those characters (referring to U+00A9 COPYRIGHT SIGN)?
One journal written in Quencha in Tengwar asked a lawyer that question,
and was told that it was completely legal for them to use the language
and script. I would think Unicode's liability would be less. The heirs
of Tolkein's estate have not objected legally to any use of Tengwar that
I've heard of.
> BTW, has *any* script, invented for *any* kind of fiction (or similar), ever
> been fully approved and included in the UCS? And, has any such script ever
> been rejected?
There's Shavian, designed to publish "Androceles and the Lion." (Did
Reads actually believe in Shaw's pipe dreams?) Klingon was rejected, but
precisely because it wasn't a script in use.
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