Re: Bantu click letters

[Mark E. Shoulson]

Peter Constable wrote:
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On
 

Behalf Of John Cowan
   

	[T]he Unicode Standard does not encode idiosyncratic,
	personal, novel, or private use characters [...].
   

What about Bell's Visible Speech? (I'm sure I've seen it discussed here
on on qalam, but I've no recollection what might have been said.) I
don't know what Bell might have published, but they were also used by
Sweet:
Sweet, Henry. 1906. A primer of phonetics. 3rd edn., revised. Oxford:
Clarendon Press.
Would you consider these too idiosyncratic?
 

I hope not.  IMO Visible Speech *definitely* deserves encoding in Plane 
1.  Bell used it some, and I have several articles by Sweet in which he 
used it, and I even managed to find an article by someone else using 
Visible Speech.  Everything is a novel invention once; the question is 
whether it has a life (or at least a significance) beyond its inventor.  
(cf. Shavian, which probably was used not more than, and likely less 
than, Visible Speech).  In fact, in the movie of My Fair Lady, Visible 
Speech is, in fact, well, visible in Henry Higgins' notebook.

I have a font (my own), and proposal for VS is languishing on my hard 
drive; it should someday be finished up and submitted.

~mark
(owner of visiblespeech.info, which someday, I hope, will actually have 
useful VS information on it)