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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/9/21 11:17, William_J_G
Overington via Unicode wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">One way I have of looking at an invention of mine is to regard it as a constructed language.</span></p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">So, I regard it as Language Y and then I am able for it to have a language code</span></p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">x-y</span></p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">which uses the Private Use facility of the language code system.</span></p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I am hoping that one day that Language Y will become encoded into The Unicode Standard.</span></p>
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<p>And it may well be, and good luck with it. But such encoding
will only take place *after* language Y acquires some following
and usage beyond a very small group, and when there is some corpus
of literature being produced in it, etc. Not before.</p>
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<p>~mark<br>
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