[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