To promote the new "Men in Black II" movie, Burger King is handing out
kids' toys with "secret messages" displayed in these glyphs:
http://www.burgerking.com/mibdecoder/
It's a straight cipher for the Latin alphabet, so don't bother
suggesting it for ConScript. They have a policy against ciphers, even
historic ones like the Utopian "alphabet" originally printed in 1516:
http://www.adh.brighton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/05/LL47.html
ConScript is also not the place to propose ciphers invented for other
recent movies, such as the Mara "alphabet" from "Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom":
http://www.mouseplanet.com/al/docs/indy.htm
or the 29-letter Atlantean script from "Atlantis: The Lost Empire":
http://omniglot.com/writing/atlantean.htm
(Note: Unicode hobbyists who go to the Disney site and choose "Character
Gallery" may not find what they expect.)
But of course someone could still encode them in the PUA. Is anyone
planning to start up that separate PUA mailing list?
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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