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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicoders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "James Kass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tom Gewecke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tex Texin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > >
