Re: Tengwar added to Plane1 Unicode Demo Page

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Tex, et al --

> ... have added a Tengwar entry [...] to the Plane 1 Demo page.

Woah! Hang on there!

I would like to voice a shout of vehement discouragement about this sort
of thing. Tex wrote "it's not officially in Unicode yet" -- which still
means "it isn't in Unicode".

Making an entry in this demo file for a proposed Plane 1 script that is
NOT IN UNICODE, is both premature and dangerous. It has not been discussed
in committee, and a spot for Tengwar on the roadmap is absolutely NO
GUARANTEE of any future disposition.

If someone feels compelled to make an entry for Tengwar in any demo,
please do it in the PUA so that people don't start getting the idea that
Tengwar is encoded, because it's not encoded, and is not going to be
encoded any time soon.

Thanks,

        Rick

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