Rick's right, of course.
Perhaps if the experimental aspect of the page were stressed
and a strong warning were given, it might be slightly more
acceptable?
Maybe the ConScript PUA encoding could be added to the BMP
demo page. But, there are many people (some on this list, even)
who vehemently oppose the PUA and reject ConScript. (I've
always thoroughly enjoyed the ConScript Registry.)
The traditional way to display Tengwar is to use any of the many
fine Tengwar "custom-ASCII" fonts, which many people on our
list might find even more objectionable than Plane One or Conscript
PUA.
The bottom line is that there is just no way to display Tengwar
which is going to please everyone at the same time. (Graphics,
well... in-line graphics spark objections, too. For one thing,
they aren't text, are they?)
So, my take on Tex's Plane One demo page is: he's damned if he
does and ignored if he doesn't. Etruscan, Gothic, Deseret, and
even the Math alphabets just aren't very commercial. Tengwar,
on the other hand, is very commercial. Especially right now,
what with the movie tie-in and a whole new generation of fans.
This is Tex Texin's page and Tom Gewecke's submission. If anyone
has any constructive suggestions or ideas on this matter, they
will most probably be appreciated.
Best regards,
James Kass.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McGowan" <rick@unicode.org>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Cc: <texin@progress.com>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: Tengwar added to Plane1 Unicode Demo Page
> 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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