At 19:01 -0500 2002-03-12, John Cowan wrote:
>Stefan Persson scripsit:
>
>> Is there any chance that Tengwar and Cirth might become parts of the UCS? I
>> know that they have been proposed for inclusion, but all proposed characters
>> don't have to be included in the standard...
>
>Of the insiders, some are strongly for it and have said so, some are
>strongly against it and have said so.
Who's strongly against it? They're perfectly valid scripts. They
represent a corpus of literary data which is studied and published.
They also have a set of users who write new texts in various
languages (some natural, some artificial), who make and use fonts for
them, and who want to exchange data in them. And I'd wager that the
number of users far exceeds the number of users of Meroitic, for
instance.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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