From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 09:59:46 CDT
On May 20, 2005, at 5:54 AM, Peter Kirk wrote:
> Well, Klingon has been rejected, but Deseret and Shavian have been
> encoded although I am unaware of any non-fantasy use of these
> scripts, and Tengwar and Cirth, which are certainly fantasy
> scripts, are roadmapped.
>
I'm aware of only one "fantasy" use of Deseret -- in the movie "Plan
10 from Outer Space" (not to be confused with the Ed Wood film with a
similar title). Otherwise, it is currently used by hobbyists and had
a small but not insignificant and decidedly serious use in Utah in
the mid-19th century. (Ken Beesley has discovered that the first
phonetic representation of Hopi is in Deseret, as it happens.)
There is a user community actively promoting the use of Shavian
today. The original publication of "Androcles and the Lion" isn't
"fantasy" in the same sense that Tengwar and Cirth are.
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