The ConScript Unicode Registry is a volunteer project to coordinate the assignment of code points in the UnicodePrivate Use Area for the encoding of artificial scripts. It was founded by John Cowan and is maintained by John Cowan and Michael Everson. It has absolutely no connection with the Unicode Consortium. In computing, Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. ... Unicode reserves 1,114,112 (= 220 + 216) code points, and currently assigns characters to more than 96,000 of those code points. ... An artificial or constructed script (also conscript or neography) is a term for new writing systems specifically devised by specific known individuals, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture like a natural script. ...
Unicode is an industry standard whose goal is to provide the means by which text of all forms and languages can be encoded for use by computers.
Unicode has the explicit aim of transcending the limitations of traditional character encodings, such as those defined by the ISO 8859 standard which get wide use in various countries of the world, but remain largely incompatible with each other.
Unicode is criticized for failing to allow for older and alternate forms of kanji, which, it is said, complicates the processing of ancient Japanese and uncommon Japanese names, although it follows the recommendations of Japanese scholars of the language and of the Japanese government.
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