From - Thu May 23 09:32:01 1996 Received: from deliverator.io.com (deliverator.io.com [199.170.88.17]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id WAA20638 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 22:44:39 -0400 Received: from io.com.io.com (dialup-154.austin.io.com [199.170.89.192]) by deliverator.io.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA12369 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 20:50:01 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199605230150.UAA12369@deliverator.io.com> X-Sender: hmiller@mail.io.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 20:50:55 -0500 To: John Cowan X-UIDL: 832858548.007 From: hmiller@IO.COM (Herman Miller) Subject: Re: Cispa Unicode Status: U X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 2214 At 04:50 PM 5/22/96 -0400, John Cowan wrote: >As you may have seen on Conlang, I am setting up a registry for >Unicode codepoints representing the letters of constructed scripts. >(For information on Unicode, see http://www.unicode.org) > >Here is a preliminary list of characters for the Cispa script. >Please look it over and tell me any additions and corrections needed: > >U+xx00 CISPA LETTER A >U+xx01 CISPA LETTER E >U+xx02 CISPA LETTER I >U+xx03 CISPA LETTER U >U+xx04 CISPA LETTER R >U+xx05 CISPA LETTER Z >U+xx06 CISPA LETTER S >U+xx07 CISPA LETTER P >U+xx08 CISPA LETTER T >U+xx09 CISPA LETTER C >U+xx0A CISPA LETTER K There is also a symbol for the glottal stop (a horizontal line) and a punctuation dot. >This assumes that the sequences AE, IE, SS, TT, CC, and KK are >digraphs like English "th" and "ph", not single letters that >happen to have two unconnected parts. That is correct. >Unfortunately, the Cispa TrueType font does not seem to work >with Windows 3.1, so I can't inspect it. Hmm. That's odd. I'm using the same version of FontMonger that I used back when I was using Windows 3.1. It only contains a small set of characters, but that shouldn't be a problem. Can you use Postscript fonts? >If any information about Cispa numerals or punctuation marks >exists (or if you even think that such information might come >to exist in future), let me know, and I will add codepoints >or reserve space, as the case may be. Thanks. I'll be adding characters for numbers and other commonly-used words (like & in English), and extra letters for Mizarian languages other than Cispa. More details will be on my Mizarian Mice page sometime next month. There probably will be about 50 symbols in all. I have a lot of other scripts for various languages, but I don't use most of them, with the exception of Olaetyan. The Olaetyan script has probably around 100 letters, counting all accented characters as separate letters, plus 10 digits and punctuation. I also have scripts for other languages such as Kazvarad, Niskloz, Kazat ?akkorou, Rynnan, and Kelwathi. >-- >John Cowan cowan@ccil.org > e'osai ko sarji la lojban