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The ConScript Unicode Registry is a volunteer project to coordinate the assignment of code points in the
Unicode Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...
Private Use Areas (PUA) for the encoding of artificial scripts, such as those for constructed languages. It was founded by John Cowan and was maintained by him and
Michael Everson Michael Everson (born January 1963) is an American and Irish linguistics, linguist, Character encoding, script encoder, typesetting, typesetter, type designer and Publishing, publisher. He runs a publishing company called Evertype, through which ...
. It is not affiliated with the Unicode Consortium.


History

The ConScript Unicode Registry is a volunteer project that was founded by John Cowan in the early 1990s. It is a joint project of John Cowan and Michael Everson. Historically, it was hosted on both Cowan and Everson's websites (branded as the North American and European sites, respectively); in 2002, the site was transitioned to be hosted exclusively on Everson's site. Since 2008, the ConScript Unicode Registry has been largely unmaintained; in 2008, Cowan explained that Everson was too busy to continue maintaining the project. Due to this inactivity, Rebecca Bettencourt founded the Under-ConScript Unicode Registry, aiming to coordinate code points for constructed languages until they can be formally added to the ConScript Unicode Registry. Scripts added to the Under-ConScript Unicode Registry include Sitelen Pona (for Toki Pona) and
Cirth The Cirth (, meaning "runes"; sg. certh ) is a semi‑artificial script, based on real‑life runic alphabets, one of Tolkien's scripts, several scripts invented by J. R. R. Tolkien for the constructed languages he devised and used in his wor ...
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Scripts

The CSUR and UCSUR include the following scripts:


Font support

Some fonts support ConScript Unicode specified code points: * Constructium, a proportional font based on SIL Gentium * Fairfax, a monospaced font family intended for text editors and terminals * GNU Unifont, a bitmap font intended as a fallback font, includes CSUR and UCSUR characters in the separate ''Unifont CSUR'' package * Horta * Kurinto Font Folio * Nishiki-teki


See also

* Medieval Unicode Font Initiative


References


External links


ConScript Unicode Registry

Under-ConScript Unicode Registry
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