Seeming hostility to conlang scripts?

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Hai all!

No offense meant to anyone personally, but why does Unicode seem to be
biased against scripts devised for conlangs?  To the best of my
knowledge, *every
single time* such a script's been proposed for inclusion, it's ultimately
been rejected (albeit with different levels of vehemence - Klingon and
Sarati both ended up on the Not the Roadmap hall of shame [Klingon from
each of *two separate* proposals], Sitelen Pona was merely rejected, and
Tengwar and Corth actually made it into the roadmap to the SMP only to
languish there for years before eventually being removed earlier this
spring), even for those (like Klingon) with an active user base
considerably larger than those of some obscure natural-language scripts
that *do* get encoded.  (In contrast, conlangs that use an existing script
do *occasionally* get their language-specific letters encoded, such as the
Volap=C3=BCk-specific Latin letters already published in Unicode.)


- Vikki McDonough =F0=9F=8F=B3=EF=B8=8F=E2=80=8D=E2=9A=A7=EF=B8=8F

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<div dir=3D"auto"><div>Hai all!</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=
=3D"auto">No offense meant to anyone personally, but why does Unicode seem =
to be biased against scripts devised for conlangs?=C2=A0 To the best of my =
knowledge, <i>every single time</i>=C2=A0such a script&#39;s been proposed =
for inclusion, it&#39;s ultimately been rejected (albeit with different lev=
els of vehemence - Klingon and Sarati both ended up on the Not the Roadmap =
hall of shame [Klingon from each of <i>two separate</i>=C2=A0proposals], Si=
telen Pona was merely rejected, and Tengwar and Corth actually made it into=
 the roadmap to the SMP only to languish there for years before eventually =
being removed earlier this spring), even for those (like Klingon) with an a=
ctive user base considerably larger than those of some obscure natural-lang=
uage scripts that <i>do</i>=C2=A0get encoded.=C2=A0 (In contrast, conlangs =
that use an existing script do <i>occasionally</i>=C2=A0get their language-=
specific letters encoded, such as the Volap=C3=BCk-specific Latin letters a=
lready published in Unicode.)</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail=3D"gm=
ail_signature"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><br></div>- Vikki McDonough =F0=9F=8F=
=B3=EF=B8=8F=E2=80=8D=E2=9A=A7=EF=B8=8F</div></div></div>

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