Making proposal plans for the UCS for these constructed scripts on Omniglot and Provisionally Assigned Noto Font Ideas

[Doug Ewell]

Matthew Tameirao wrote:

> The scripts I'm proposing are constructed scripts from Omniglot for
> scripts that are needed in the UCS.

Before writing the formal proposal(s) — which you will need to do for these to even be considered — can you briefly explain why these constructed scripts are “needed in the UCS”?

The bar is very high for encoding constructed scripts, especially recently invented scripts intended solely, or primarily, for constructed languages. 

> Unicode is making proposals for the scripts that people made from
> Omniglot and need to be known for people to see on Unicode.

I’m not really sure what this sentence means.

Unicode does not make any proposals. They are submitted to Unicode (actually the Script Encoding Working Group) by individuals or groups.

The vast majority of the hundreds of scripts shown on Omniglot (other than adaptations of existing scripts, like “Cyrillic for Brazilian Portuguese”) will not ever be encoded in Unicode, nor should they be.

> Proposing These Scripts
> • Tapissary (U+x5000-U+x65FF), Noto Font: Noto Serif Tapissary
> • Muplo (U+x1000-U+x10FF), Noto Font: Noto Sans Muplo
> • Muplo Cursive (U+x1100-U+x117F), Noto Font: Noto Sans Muplo
> • Oxidilogi (U+x1800-U+x183F), Noto Font: Noto Sans Oxidilogi
> Proposing These Color Scripts
> • Undine (U+yC000-U+yD9FF), Noto Fonts: Noto Color Undine & Noto Sans
> Undine
> These scripts are the next coming up version and the following version
> for these Noto Font ideas when it comes out.

Constructed scripts can be assigned to code points in one of the three Unicode Private Use Areas, and fonts can be created to support those private encodings. That is what the Private Use Areas are for. There are many such fonts already; some of the best-known are Nishiki-teki, Catrinity, Constructium, Fairfax HD, and Code2000. Search for those names, and also check out these links:

https://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/
https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/

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