Re: Camion Code, new phonemic writing system

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Fri Aug 20 1999 - 06:05:34 EDT


Ar 13:13 -0700 1999-08-19, scr�obh Rick McGowan:

>As to encoding in Unicode, I repeat what others have said... Unicode doesn't
>encode things speculatively "as a means of encouraging [their] use". If
>Camion were to be encoded for such a purpose, then I'm sure we'd soon hear
>from the Klingon High Command and the Foovian Embassy, both sadly neglected
>constituencies.

The Klingons simply await a quiet moment for their script to be given the
nod, and realize that both politically and technically it would be
impossible to give it much prominence, given some recent discussions in SC2
and JTC1.

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