The plane 1 demo pages have been updated without the Tengwar, so now
they represent only actual plane 1 Unicode characters.
With NCRs:
http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example-plane1.html
With UTF-8:
http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-plane1-utf8.html
I will create a plane 15 page as time allows. The pages have value to
developers looking to test their implementations for support of these
characters and code points.
Feel free to begin sending me your example ideas.
The pages are not constrained to represent James Kass fonts (he
graciously agrees), so if you want to submit an entry that requires
another font (or another plane) that is ok. My only requirements (at the
moment) are that the font be easy to access and install (and the
characters should be at Unicode's prescribed locations ;-) ). The only
other requirement is your patience with submissions. I travel a lot and
my real job sometimes gets in the way of managing these pages.
Many thanks to those of you that have offered submissions, suggestions,
corrections, and statements of support to-date.
tex
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Tengwar added to Plane1 Unicode Demo Page
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 01:44:52 -0800
From: "James Kass" <jameskass@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Unicoders" <unicode@unicode.org>
CC: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>, "Tom Gewecke" <tom@bluesky.org>
References: <3C3B305B.57B50E01@progress.com>
Thanks to the many people who have taken the time to offer comments
and suggestions both on and off this list, we've arrived at a consensus
which we believe will satisfy the needs of implementers and
experimenters without violating any protocols.
This is what has been done:
The font Code2001 has been revised and as before contains a number of
scripts for experimental purposes. Those which have been approved by
Unicode in Plane One are, of course, at at their designated codepoints.
Those which have not, including Tengwar and Cirth, are now encoded
in Plane 15 and, if they have been so proposed, in the BMP PUA.
Existing test pages for provisional scripts have been revised.
Since Plane Fifteen codepoints are GUARANTEED not to be the final,
official
encoding positions, it is hoped that when this is clearly indicated
there will
be no confusion.
the font:
http://home.att.net/~jameskass/CODE2001.ZIP
some test pages:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/oring.html
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/cirth.html
http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example-plane1.html
http://home.att.net/~jameskass/cirthtest.htm
http://home.att.net/~jameskass/tengwartest.htm
Comments are welcome.
Best regards,
James Kass, sending this letter which was written by:
Tom Gewecke,
James Kass,
and Tex Texin.
Beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>
To: "Unicoders" <unicode@unicode.org>; "James Kass"
<jameskass@worldnet.att.net>; "Tom Gewecke" <tom@bluesky.org>; "Tex
Texin"
<texin@progress.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: Tengwar added to Plane1 Unicode Demo Page
> Thanks for all the comments on Tengwar. James, Tom and I have been
> discussing the mails offlist and deciding what the fix will be. I don't
> think we need further comments on the appropriateness of including it in
> what is billed as a Unicode demo page. I'll get back to you with the
> plan to address it. It is taking a little while longer than you might
> expect, as I have some other commitments (my day job).
>
> As for the discussion of which languages a Hobbit can read and write,
> and what script they would use, it seems to me that would be a great
> paper for IUC21 if someone is up to it.
>
> Regards,
> tex
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Tex Texin Director, International Business
> mailto:Texin@Progress.com Tel: +1-781-280-4271
> the Progress Company Fax: +1-781-280-4655
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> For a compelling demonstration for Unicode:
> http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example.html
>
>
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