ConScript Unicode Registry
Encyclopedia
The ConScript Unicode Registry is a volunteer project to coordinate the assignment of code points in the Unicode
Private Use Area for the encoding of artificial scripts. It was founded by John Cowan and is maintained by John Cowan and Michael Everson
. It has no formal connection with the Unicode Consortium
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The CSUR includes the following scripts:
Withdrawn because they are in Unicode:
Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
Private Use Area for the encoding of artificial scripts. It was founded by John Cowan and is maintained by John Cowan and Michael Everson
Michael Everson
Michael Everson is a linguist, script encoder, typesetter, and font designer. His central area of expertise is with writing systems of the world, specifically in the representation of these systems in formats for computer and digital media...
. It has no formal connection with the Unicode Consortium
Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode standard. Its stated goal is to eventually replace existing character encoding schemes with Unicode and its standard Unicode Transformation Format schemes, claiming that many of the existing...
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The CSUR includes the following scripts:
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Unifon Unifon is a phonemic orthography for English designed in the mid-1950s by Dr. John R. Malone, a Chicago economist and newspaper equipment consultant. It was developed into a teaching aid to help children acquire reading and writing skills. Like the pronunciation key in a dictionary, Unifon matches... (E740–E76F) http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/unifon.html Solresol Solresol is an artificial language devised by François Sudre, beginning in 1827. He published his major book on it, Langue musicale universelle, in 1866, though he had already been publicizing it for some years... (E770–E77F) http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/solresol.html Visible Speech Visible speech is the writing system used by Alexander Melville Bell, who was known internationally as a teacher of speech and proper elocution and an author of books on the subject. The system is composed of symbols that show the position and movement of the throat, tongue, and lips as they... (E780–E7FF) http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/visible-speech.html Always Coming Home Always Coming Home is a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin published in 1985. This novel is about a cultural group of humans—the Kesh—who "might be going to have lived a long, long time from now in Northern California." Always Coming Home is a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin published in 1985. This novel is... (F8A0–F8CF) http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/aiha.html |
Withdrawn because they are in Unicode:
- Phaistos DiscPhaistos DiscThe Phaistos Disc is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the Greek island of Crete, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age . It is about 15 cm in diameter and covered on both sides with a spiral of stamped symbols...
(E6D0–E6FF) use 101D0–101FF - ShavianShavian alphabetThe Shavian alphabet is an alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of the conventional spelling. It was posthumously funded by and named after Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw...
(E700–E72F) use 10450–1047F - DeseretDeseret alphabetThe Deseret alphabet is a phonemic English spelling reform developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.In public statements, Young claimed the...
(E830–E88F) use 10400–1044F