Re: Fictional scripts revisited, might as well relax about it now

From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Fri Feb 23 2001 - 12:11:27 EST

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At 8:27 AM -0800 2/23/01, Dan Kolis wrote:
>Well, if you have no cultural bias and you encode Klingon, you pretty well
>have to include anything.
>

Klingon is not likely to be encoded any time soon. The basic problem
here is that the Klingon Language Institute has shown little interest
in promoting it; indeed, all of their material is published in Latin
transcription. Bottom line: Nobody seems to want to interchange
data using it, so it's not moving forward.

IMHO *any* fictional script is a candidate for encoding if there is a
user community seeking to actively interchange data using it. Any
non-fictional script ditto.

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