ConScript Unicode Registry

Short description: Encoding of artificial scripts

The ConScript Unicode Registry is a volunteer project to coordinate the assignment of code points in the Unicode Private Use Areas (PUA) for the encoding of artificial scripts, such as those for constructed languages.[1] It was founded by John Cowan and was maintained by him and Michael Everson. It is not affiliated with the Unicode Consortium.[2]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Scripts
* 3 Font support
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## History

The ConScript Unicode Registry is a volunteer project[3] that was founded by John Cowan[4] in the early 1990s. It is a joint project of John Cowan and Michael Everson.[4]

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.[5][6]

Since 2008, the ConScript Unicode Registry has been largely unmaintained; in 2008, Cowan explained that Everson was too busy to continue maintaining the project.[7] 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.[8] Scripts added to the Under-ConScript Unicode Registry include Sitelen Pona (for Toki Pona)[9] and Cirth.[10]

## Scripts

The CSUR and UCSUR include the following scripts:[1][11][8]

Withdrawn

Allocated only in the UCSUR

Scripts in the ConScript Unicode Registry[1][11] and Under-ConScript Unicode Registry[8] Writing system  | Creator(s)  | Code range  | Notes

|
|
|

Aiha  | Ursula K. Le Guin  | F8A0–F8CF  |
Alzetjan  | Herman Miller  | E550–E57F  |
Amlin  | Marnanel Thurman  | E6D0−E6EF  |
Amman-Iar  | David Bell  | E2A0–E2CF  |
Ath  | Morioka Hiroyuki  | F4C0−F4EF  |
aUI | John W. Weilgart  | E280–E29F  |
Aurebesh  | Stephen Crane  | E890−E8DF  |
Braille | Louis Braille  | EB60−EB9F  | The Braille Extended block includes all permutations of all Braille patterns as specified in the original 1829 specification, but not otherwise encoded in the Braille Patterns Unicode block.[12]
Cirth | J. R. R. Tolkien  | E080–E0FF  | Unicode proposal made in September 1997[13]
No action taken but Cirth appears in the Roadmap to the SMP[14]
Cistercian numerals |  | EBA0−EBDF  |
Cylenian  | Danae Dekker  | EC00−EC2F  |
Deini  | Dana Nutter  | ED00−ED3F  |
Derani  | Hoemaı  | F16B0−F16DF  |
Deseret |  | E830–E88F  | Withdrawn after inclusion in Unicode. Use the corresponding Unicode block (U+10400-U+1044F).
D'ni  | Richard A. Watson  | E830−E88F  |
Engsvanyáli | M. A. R. Barker  | E100–E14F  |
Ewellic  | Doug Ewell  | E680–E6CF  |
Ferengi  | Timothy Miller  | E600–E62F  |
Gargoyle  | Herman Miller  | E5C0–E5DF  |
Glaitha-A  | Rebecca G. Bettencourt  | E900−E97F  |
Glaitha-B  | Rebecca G. Bettencourt  | E980−E9FF  |
Graflect  | Aaron Paterson  | EC70−ECEF  |
Grawlixes  | Mort Walker  | EDF0−EDFF  |
Ilianore  | Jeff Smith  | E1B0–E1CF  |
Iranic  | Ali Hossein Mohammadi  | ED80−EDAF  |
Kazat ?Akkorou  | Herman Miller  | E430–E44F  |
Kazvarad  | Herman Miller  | E450–E46F  |
Kelwathi  | Herman Miller  | E4F0–E4FF  |
Kinya  | Maurizio M. Gavoli  | E150–E1AF  |
Kinya Syllables  | Maurizio M. Gavoli  | F0000–F0E6F  |
Klingon  | Astra Image Corporation  | F8D0–F8FF  | Unicode proposal made in 1997[15]
Formally rejected by Unicode in 2001[16][17]
Lapointe Hexadecimal Numerals  | Boby Lapointe  | EBE0−EBEF  |
Lhenazi  | Arthaey Angosii  | EA00−EA9F  |
Martin Hexadecimal Numerals  | Bruce Alan Martin  | EBF0−EBFF  |
Mizarian  | Herman Miller  | E300–E33F  |
Monofon  | Steve T. Bell  | E800–E82F  |
Niji  | Norbert Lindenberg  | ED40−ED7F  |
Nísklôz  | Herman Miller  | E400–E42F  |
Night Writing  | Charles Barbier  | F16E0-F16FF  | The Braille Supplemental block includes Night Writing dot patterns not otherwise encoded in the Braille Patterns Unicode block.[18]
Olaetyan  | Herman Miller  | E3B0–E3FF  |
Ophidian  |  | E5E0–E5FF  |
Orokin  | Digital Extremes | EB00−EB3F  |
Phaistos Disc |  | E6D0–E6FF  | Withdrawn after inclusion in Unicode. Use the corresponding Unicode block (U+101D0-U+101FF).
Pikto  | John E. Williams  | F0E70–F16A4  |
Røzhxh  | Herman Miller  | E490–E4BF  |
Rynnan  | Herman Miller  | E520–E54F  |
Sadalian  | Wong Sadale Cho Ching  | F2000−F267F  |
Saklor  | Herman Miller  | E500–E51F  |
Sarkai  | Herman Miller  | E360–E37F  |
Serivelna  | Herman Miller  | E4C0–E4EF  |
Seussian Latin Extensions  | Theodor Geisel  | E630–E64F  |
Shavian  | Ronald Kingsley Read  | E700–E72F  | Withdrawn after inclusion in Unicode. Use the corresponding Unicode block (U+10450-U+1047F).
Semtog  | George Sutton, Martin Novy  | F1700−F18FF  |
Shidinn  | Quefei Huang  | F1B00−F1C3F  |
Sitelen Pona  | Sonja Lang  | F1900−F19FF  |
Sitelen Pona Radicals  | Sonja Lang et al.  | F1C80−F1C9F  |
Solresol | Jean François Sudre  | E770–E77F  |
Ssûraki  | Herman Miller  | E5A0–E5BF  |
Standard Galactic  | Tom Hall  | EB40−EB5F  |
Streich  | Tommaso Donnarumma  | E2D0–E2DF  |
Syai  | Brian Lilburn  | E1D0–E1FF  |
Sylabitsa  | Marcin Kowalczyk  | E650−E67F  |
Syrrin  | Danae Dekker  | EC30−EC6F  |
Tassarunese  | Narylis  | EDB0−EDDF  |
Telarasso  | Herman Miller  | E580–E59F  |
Tengwar | J. R. R. Tolkien  | E000–E07F  | Unicode proposal made in September 1997.[19] No action taken but Tengwar appears in the Roadmap to the SMP.[14]
Thelwik  | Herman Miller  | E380–E3AF  |
Titi Pula  | Ðoom Epictooþ  | F1C40−F1C7F  |
Tonal  | John W. Nystrom  | E8E0−E8FF  |
Unifon  | John Malone  | E740–E76F  | In UCSUR, the block Unifon Extended was added in the code range U+E6F0–U+E73F.[20]
Verdurian | Mark Rosenfelder  | E200–E26F  |
Visible Speech | Alexander Melville Bell  | E780–E7FF  |
Wanya  | Max Dominik Weber  | EAA0−EAFF  |
Whitaker Hexadecimal Numerals  | Ronald O. Whitaker  | ECF0-ECFF  |
Xaîni  | Paul Blake  | E2E0–E2FF  |
Zarkhánd  | Herman Miller  | E470–E48F  |
Zbalermorna  | la kmir  | F28A0−F28DF  |
Zese  | Jack Eisenmann  | EDE0−EDEF  |
Zírí:Nka  | Herman Miller  | E340–E35F  |

## Font support

Some fonts support ConScript Unicode specified code points:

* Constructium, a proportional font based on SIL Gentium[21]
* Fairfax, a monospaced font family intended for text editors and terminals[22]
* GNU Unifont, a bitmap font intended as a fallback font, includes CSUR and UCSUR characters in the separate Unifont CSUR package[10]
* Horta[23]
* Kurinto Font Folio[24]
* Nishiki-teki[25]

## See also

* Medieval Unicode Font Initiative

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "ConScript Unicode Registry". Evertype.com. http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/.
2. ↑ "FAQ - Private-Use Characters, Noncharacters, and Sentinels". Unicode Consortium. https://www.unicode.org/faq/private_use.html#nonchar14. "As an example, see the ConScript Unicode Registry—a private group unaffiliated with the Unicode Consortium—which has extensive tables listing private-use character definitions for various unencoded scripts."
3. ↑ Scott, Michael Lee (2009). Programming Language Pragmatics (3rd ed.). Morgan Kaufmann. pp. 295. ISBN 978-0-12-374514-9. "It also sets aside a "private use area" for such artificial [constructed] languages as Klingon, Tengwar, and Cirth [Tolkien Elvish]. Allocation of this private space is coordinated by a volunteer organization known as the ConScript Unicode Registry."
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Cowan, John; Everson, Michael (2023-04-27). "ConScript Unicode Registry". Evertype. https://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/. "The Registry is the joint project of John Cowan and Michael Everson. John originated the Registry and did most of the work of collecting information and writing preliminary proposals; Michael has been reviewing and revising these proposals into final registrations."
5. ↑ "Wayback Machine comparison (2002-01-13 vs 2002-06-15)". https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20020113110730/20020615183822/http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/.
6. ↑ Cowan, John. "John Cowan". Chester County InterLink. http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/.
7. ↑ Cowan, John (2008-02-04). "Re: CSUR help". https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/everson.shtml.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Bettencourt, Rebecca G.. "Under-ConScript Unicode Registry". http://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/.
9. ↑ jan Ke Tami (2022-09-01). "nasin Juniko ala la, nasin UCSUR li lon" (in Toki Pona). Lipu Tenpo (moku): 2–3. ISSN 2752-4639. https://liputenpo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/0015moku_1.pdf.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "GNU Unifont". Unifoundry.com. http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Everson, Michael (21 March 2008). "Roadmap to the ConScript Unicode Registry". Evertype. https://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/conscript-table.html. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
12. ↑ ((User:Vanisaac)). "Braille Extended". https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/charts/Braille_Extended_UCSUR.pdf.
13. ↑ Everson, Michael (1997-09-18). "N1642: Proposal to encode Cirth in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2". Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 and UTC. http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n1642/n1642.htm.
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Roadmap to the SMP". Unicode.org. 2015-06-03. https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/.
15. ↑ Everson, Michael (1997-09-18). "N1643: Proposal to encode Klingon in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2". Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 and UTC. http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n1643/n1643.htm.
16. ↑ "N2370: Unicode Consortium Liaison Report". The Unicode Consortium. 2001-10-10. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01378-n2370-liaison-rpt-singapore.htm.
17. ↑ "Archive of Notices of Non-Approval". The Unicode Consortium. https://www.unicode.org/alloc/nonapprovals.html.
18. ↑ ((User:Vanisaac)). "Braille Supplement". https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/charts/Braille_Supplement_UCSUR.pdf.
19. ↑ Everson, Michael (1997-09-18). "N1641: Proposal to encode Tengwar in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2". Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 and UTC. http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n1641/n1641.htm.
20. ↑ "Unifon Extended: U+E6F0 - U+E73F". https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/charts/unifon-ext.html.
21. ↑ Bettencourt, Rebecca. "Constructium". Kreative Korporation. http://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/constructium.shtml.
22. ↑ Bettencourt, Rebecca. "Fairfax". Kreative Korporation. https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/fairfaxhd.shtml.
23. ↑ "Horta is a remarkably intelligent and sensitive typeface". Christ Trek Fonts. https://christtrekker.users.sourceforge.net/fnt/horta.shtml.
24. ↑ "Kurinto Font Folio". https://Kurinto.com/.
25. ↑ Niwatori, Shiroi. "にしき的フォント". https://umihotaru.work/.

## External links

* ConScript Unicode Registry
* Under-ConScript Unicode Registry

* v
* t
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Unicode

Unicode|

* Unicode Consortium
* ISO/IEC 10646 (Universal Character Set)
* Versions

Code points|

* Blocks
* Universal Character Set
* Character charts
* Character property
* Planes
* Private Use Areas

Characters|

| Special purpose|

* BOM
* Combining Grapheme Joiner
* Left-to-right mark / Right-to-left mark
* Soft hyphen
* Word joiner
* Zero-width joiner
* Zero-width non-joiner
* Zero-width space

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Lists|

* Characters
* CJK Unified Ideographs
* Combining character
* Duplicate characters
* Numerals
* Scripts
* Spaces
* Symbols
* Halfwidth and fullwidth
* Alias names and abbreviations

Processing|

| Algorithms|

* Bi-directional text
* Collation
* ISO 14651
* Equivalence
* Variation sequences
* International Ideographs Core

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Comparison|

* BOCU-1
* CESU-8
* Punycode
* SCSU
* UTF-1
* UTF-7
* UTF-8
* UTF-9/UTF-18
* UTF-16/UCS-2
* UTF-32/UCS-4
* UTF-EBCDIC

On pairs of
code points|

* Combining character
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* Equivalence
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* list
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Usage|

* Domain names (IDN)
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Related standards|

* Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)
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Related topics|

* Anomalies
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* People involved with Unicode
* Han unification

Scripts and symbols in Unicode

Common and
inherited scripts|

* Combining marks
* Diacritics
* Punctuation
* Space
* Numbers

Modern scripts|

* Adlam
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* Armenian
* Balinese
* Bamum
* Batak
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* Bopomofo
* Braille
* Buhid
* Burmese
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* Odia
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* Pahawh Hmong
* Pau Cin Hau
* Pracalit (Newa)
* Ranjana
* Rejang
* Samaritan
* Saurashtra
* Shavian
* Sinhala
* Sorang Sompeng
* Sundanese
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* Syriac
* Tagbanwa
* Tai Le
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* Tamil
* Telugu
* Thaana
* Thai
* Tibetan
* Tifinagh
* Tirhuta
* Vai
* Wancho
* Warang Citi
* Yi

Ancient and
historic scripts|

* Ahom
* Anatolian hieroglyphs
* Ancient North Arabian
* Avestan
* Bassa Vah
* Bhaiksuki
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* Carian
* Caucasian Albanian
* Coptic
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* Palmyrene
* 'Phags-pa
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* Runic
* Sharada
* Siddham
* Sogdian
* South Arabian
* Soyombo
* Tagalog (Baybayin)
* Takri
* Tangut
* Ugaritic
* Zanabazar Square

Notational scripts|

* Duployan
* SignWriting

Symbols|

* Cultural, political, and religious symbols
* Currency
* Mathematical operators and symbols
* Phonetic symbols (including IPA)
* Emoji

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