Ken,
> > At 23:27 -0600 2002-02-25, David Starner wrote:
>> >There is a full proposal for the Theban alphabet at:
>> ><http://tuxedo.org/~esr/unicode/theban/>. Has anyone here ever seen it?
>> >It doesn't show on the Unicode website, even in the "Yeah, right"
>> >listing of scripts.
>>
>> I certainly remember discussing it with the author in 1999. I told
>> him I was concerned about it being considered a cypher for the Latin
>> script. He countered that somewhat. I suggested that he provide some
>> more samples and get more information about the user community, which
>> largely consists of practitioners of both theurgic and thaumaturgic
>> ritual.
>
>It sounds to me that if Eric Raymond wants to pursue this, he
>needs to get his act together (and maybe some Wiccans to support
>him) to actually update and submit the proposal to the committees.
I agree. I told him that in 1999.
>I, too, am concerned that this originated merely as a Latin
>cypher, and remains nothing other than that, even in current
>use, rather than being a script in its own right.
I said that we'd need evidence written up. He did provide me some
arguments on the line of "if you write ABRACADABRA in Latin it
doesn't work, but if you write it in Theban it has power" which is,
indeed, a plain text differentiation. :-)
>And in any case, even to be seriously considered, this should
>be a Plane 1 proposal, and not something to take up another
>two columns of the BMP.
Certainly.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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