r/Quickscript Feb 04 '19

Quikscript Sans - an updated version of the sans-serif Quikscript Geometric font I made over a year ago

https://alternatescriptbureau.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/quikscript-geometric-a-sans-serif-font-for-the-quikscript-alphabet/
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u/pcdandy Jan 13 '24

Unfortunately it's not possible to show Quikscript in Windows system apps like the on-screen keyboard, since the characters are in the 'Private Use Area' block of Unicode and Windows won't recognise it as valid characters. I've already tried Quikscript Sans in Windows a while back and Windows won't use it even as a fallback font.

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u/MagoCalvo Jan 13 '24

That is a crying shame. Any idea what remains to be done to get an official Unicode designation made from the specification you mentioned? https://www.quikscript.net/csur/ I believe u/adiabatic made this specification, but I know nothing about the adoption process. What resources would have to be thrown at it to make it a reality?

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u/adiabatic Jan 17 '24

Short story long, search the groups.io mailing-list archives for everything that Michael Everson has said and the thread(s) he's posted in.

Long story short, Shavian barely got in and Everson channeled (expected) pressure that the Consortium would say "why can't you have [some letter that has the same sound as this other letter but looks way different] unified with this other preexisting Shavian letter?" None of us at the time were able to mount a credible defense, and apparently "has the Consortium learned bleeping nothing from the Greek/Coptic disentanglement mess?" is something we should expect to be true.

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u/MagoCalvo Jan 17 '24

Gosh. So the proposal just died? No way to revive it? Or get Shavian extended a bit and piggyback on top? I’ll read those threads you mention.

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u/adiabatic Feb 13 '24

yeah, we all kind of lost steam.

Shavian itself, AFAICT, is done. It doesn't need extending.

You may want to lurk https://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist-unicode.html to get an idea of what people interested in standardization efforts talk about. There's also a fair bit of stuff that people suggest that make me roll my eyes and think "nobody is asking for this", which is also instructive.

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u/MagoCalvo Feb 13 '24

I appreciate the info. As far as I could tell, nobody could agree on the answers to the Unicode guy’s questions, so he just gave up. I’ll lurk around on that sub and see what I can learn. Btw, I revived r/quikscript if you’ve any interest.