Re: Seeming hostility to conlang scripts?

"Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode" <[email protected]> Sun, 31 May 2026 13:28:00 -0400
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Wait, Sitelen Pona gets used?

(Of course it does, or it might, but I wouldn't know.  Nor do you seem 
to consider that scripts you aren't familiar with get used.) Tengwar and 
Cirth are popular, and see 
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16329-piqad-returns.pdf for examples of 
Klingon pIqaD usage.

~mark

On 5/29/26 5:41 PM, Gabriel Tellez via Unicode wrote:
> Are there any conlang scripts, other than Sitelen Pona, that *do* get 
> used?
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 3:16 PM Michael De Roover 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     On Thursday, 28 May 2026 20:35:45 Central European Summer Time
>     Gabriel Tellez
>     via Unicode wrote:
>     > Sure but Teyvat Script is, as you seem to have said, is 1 to 1
>     with latin.
>     > So it has no need to be encoded in the first place. These other
>     scripts
>     > (pIqaD, Tengwar, Cirth, Sarati) don't have that.
>
>     Admittedly, I am not familiar with these franchises or their scripts.
>     Uncultured as I am however, the legality and usage issues do still
>     stand.
>
>     I do think it is worth considering them in context of Esperanto,
>     which despite
>     being a conlang did manage to secure itself a critical base of
>     primary
>     speakers, and Unicode support. These languages could become like
>     that too, but
>     their communities will have to put in the work first to prove
>     usefulness.
>
>     >From my developer standpoint, I don't mind certain ignorable
>     parts of a spec
>     existing, provided that I don't need to add those to my
>     implementations. By
>     that I mean that I don't mind inclusion of *some* aspects that I
>     may consider
>     to be cruft for my own implementation, provided that ignoring them
>     is allowed
>     by the spec.
>
>     The other day I was working on an SMTP receiver, which will
>     implement HELO/
>     EHLO, MAIL, RCPT, DATA, QUIT, and RSET commands. There do exist
>     other commands
>     in the SMTP specs, which I will not implement and only gracefully
>     refuse. But
>     that graceful refusal does take decision on my end, as to how much
>     I need to
>     implement of those, and what I consider to be sufficiently cruft
>     to ignore while
>     remaining in spec.
>
>     That decision-making on an individual implementer's part is my
>     concern here. I
>     believe that this is primarily a given standard's job. Any
>     deviation thereof,
>     even when it remains in spec, introduces uncertainty. And while I do
>     acknowledge each of these fandoms, including my own, I would not
>     be willing to
>     implement any of them unless required by my employer (which will
>     contractually
>     take the legal burden). While the fandoms of each of these
>     franchises are
>     enormous, their conlangs' usefulness does not currently extend
>     beyond those
>     fandoms. And I would definitely not want to be sued by their
>     rights holders
>     over it, no matter how boneheaded the fandoms may be about it (and
>     Genshin's
>     is no different). Nor do I want Unicode to be exposed to that either.
>
>     -- 
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>     [Michael De Roover]
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    <p>Wait, Sitelen Pona gets used?</p>
    <p>(Of course it does, or it might, but I wouldn't know.  Nor do you
      seem to consider that scripts you aren't familiar with get used.) 
      Tengwar and Cirth are popular, and see
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16329-piqad-returns.pdf">https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16329-piqad-returns.pdf</a> for
      examples of Klingon pIqaD usage.</p>
    <p>~mark</p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/29/26 5:41 PM, Gabriel Tellez via
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      <div dir="ltr">Are there any conlang scripts, other than Sitelen
        Pona, that *do* get used?</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 28, 2026 at
          3:16 PM Michael De Roover &lt;<a
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style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On
          Thursday, 28 May 2026 20:35:45 Central European Summer Time
          Gabriel Tellez <br>
          via Unicode wrote:<br>
          &gt; Sure but Teyvat Script is, as you seem to have said, is 1
          to 1 with latin.<br>
          &gt; So it has no need to be encoded in the first place. These
          other scripts<br>
          &gt; (pIqaD, Tengwar, Cirth, Sarati) don't have that.<br>
          <br>
          Admittedly, I am not familiar with these franchises or their
          scripts. <br>
          Uncultured as I am however, the legality and usage issues do
          still stand.<br>
          <br>
          I do think it is worth considering them in context of
          Esperanto, which despite <br>
          being a conlang did manage to secure itself a critical base of
          primary <br>
          speakers, and Unicode support. These languages could become
          like that too, but <br>
          their communities will have to put in the work first to prove
          usefulness.<br>
          <br>
          &gt;From my developer standpoint, I don't mind certain
          ignorable parts of a spec <br>
          existing, provided that I don't need to add those to my
          implementations. By <br>
          that I mean that I don't mind inclusion of *some* aspects that
          I may consider <br>
          to be cruft for my own implementation, provided that ignoring
          them is allowed <br>
          by the spec.<br>
          <br>
          The other day I was working on an SMTP receiver, which will
          implement HELO/<br>
          EHLO, MAIL, RCPT, DATA, QUIT, and RSET commands. There do
          exist other commands <br>
          in the SMTP specs, which I will not implement and only
          gracefully refuse. But <br>
          that graceful refusal does take decision on my end, as to how
          much I need to <br>
          implement of those, and what I consider to be sufficiently
          cruft to ignore while <br>
          remaining in spec.<br>
          <br>
          That decision-making on an individual implementer's part is my
          concern here. I <br>
          believe that this is primarily a given standard's job. Any
          deviation thereof, <br>
          even when it remains in spec, introduces uncertainty. And
          while I do <br>
          acknowledge each of these fandoms, including my own, I would
          not be willing to <br>
          implement any of them unless required by my employer (which
          will contractually <br>
          take the legal burden). While the fandoms of each of these
          franchises are <br>
          enormous, their conlangs' usefulness does not currently extend
          beyond those <br>
          fandoms. And I would definitely not want to be sued by their
          rights holders <br>
          over it, no matter how boneheaded the fandoms may be about it
          (and Genshin's <br>
          is no different). Nor do I want Unicode to be exposed to that
          either.<br>
          <br>
          -- <br>
          [Met vriendelijke groet] [Best regards]<br>
          [Michael De Roover]<br>
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