[ot] on beyond zebra

i binned the post which brought this up, so i can't launch a properly threaded
reply; sorry.

anyway, the extended alphabet revealed by the illuminati magus Dr Seuss in his
cryptognostic tome 'On Beyond Zebra' is illustrated here:

http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/csur/seuss.html

it seems that these letters are bein allocated unicode character codes
from the private use space - that is, they will be explicitly
representable with unicode, the 16-bit next-generation character set
used by java, windows NT and such.

there are quite a few character sets that have been so encoded, including
Tolkien's tengwar and cirth, ST's ferengi and klingon, and a variety of other
constructed scripts i've never heard of (including some from the 'ultima'
computer games and one from Ursula Le Guin's book 'always coming home'). see:

http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/csur/

tom

G'day tom,

> i binned the post which brought this up, so i can't launch a properly

Thanks! To my dismay "On Beyond Zebra" turned out to be one we haven't got yet
and the suspense was killing me:)

Cheers

Beth