From: D. Starner (shalesller@writeme.com)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2005 - 17:49:17 CST
"Lars Kristan" writes:
> Things that would fill up the
> codepoints would be:
> * Artificial scripts, like Klingon
> * Formatting (escape) codes
> * An alien race
>
> Unicode doesn't encode the first two,
Unicode actually does encode artificial scripts; look at Deseret and
Shavian. Tengwar and Cirth are roadmapped, along with few more. The
only rule is that they actually have to be used. It's not like artifical
scripts will fill up the codespace, anyway; the Conscript registry fills
the private use area plus one 2100-character script and one precomposed
script that wouldn't be encoded that way in Unicode. There's more conscripts
out there on the web, but I suspect they could all be fitted into the
Private Use Area. In any case, Klingon was one of the stronger cases for
encoding; most of these scripts have probably never been used to
communicate between two people.
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