: : > Tengwar be added BEFORE Ciao-Ciao's poetries and Man-Yo-Shu become : : > encodable in Unicode. : : : : Why should a great Western author have to wait on a great Eastern author? : : My reaction exactly: why author A's special characters (*) would be more special : than author B's special characters? Surely without dragging this even to the usual : "East versus West" debate, that sounds wrong. : : (*) Characters created by the author as a part of the creative process.
I have to hasten to add that I have no knowledge of Eastern classics, unfortunately. I just jumped to the conclusion that the above-mentioned would have been one of those cases where new Chinese characters were created "on the fly", for artistic purposes of the poems.