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Inspired by a HN comment, four half-star characters accepted by Unicode
- WorldMaker 10y agoGreat work! Next it would be great to revisit the conlang space proposal (for Klingon, Tengwar/Tolkien Elvish, et al) for the Astral Plane. (There was a previous proposal before the Astral Plane opened up.)
- kens 10y agoI think I'll stay away from that controversial area :-) Klingon got severely rejected by Unicode in 2001, so it's going to be difficult to turn things around. [1] Unicode's reasons for rejecting Klingon: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01212-RejectKlingon.html http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01212-RejectKlingon.html and the official rejection notice: http://www.unicode.org/alloc/nonapprovals.html http://www.unicode.org/alloc/nonapprovals.html
- WorldMaker 10y agoMany of those criticisms are quite fair, and most are still applicable, but I am curious with a decade and a half difference in time (and a larger encoding space) if the criticisms are as severe today as they were then. Of course we definitely have to wait for the Axanar lawsuit to be settled first. :)
- WorldMaker 10y agoRuminating a bit further: the complaints that there isn't a standard orthography for writing the language in the symbols, is a bit out of the jurisdiction of Unicode. Certainly there are symbols encoded in Unicode such as the academic interest Linear-A and Linear-B where the orthography is an active area of academic research. It wouldn't be Unicode's job to standardize the orthography, just the encoding of the "Okudagram" symbols, and let the academics continue to debate the proper orthography of the Klingon language.