On Friday, November 9, 2001, at 09:03 AM, David Starner wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:58:30AM +0000, Michael Everson wrote:
>> Actually, some for scripts in the ConScript Registry did find that
>> there was sufficient reason to encode them. Deseret is the best
>> example; Shavian may be a bit dodgy but it satisfied the committees
>
> I'm curious; why is Deseret a better example than Shavian? Is it because
> of brief historical use?
>

Dunno. They both have equally small modern user communities and are both
historical curiosities in their own way. Deseret just got pushed through
first and is, in fact, the first script to graduate from ConScript to
Unicode.

Me, I'm miffed that Deseret didn't even rate a mention in _World's Writing
Systems_. (Of course, maybe the fact that all existing Deseret fonts are
truly pathetic had something to do with that.) :-(

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