eorzean_text This is just English with a weird alphabet. Should it be meta for art using that 'language', or not?
Hopefully, if people use search, they'll find this for next language request.

alphamule said:
eorzean_text This is just English with a weird alphabet. Should it be meta for art using that 'language', or not?
Hopefully, if people use search, they'll find this for next language request.

Character_ciphers should be meta tags. See digicode_text (a cipher of Japanese kana or the English alphabet from the Digimon franchise) and unown_text (a cipher of the English alphabet from the Pokemon franchise). Such tags should also imply character_cipher.

EDIT: "Alienese" from Futurama is another character cipher, but I don't know if we have any posts containing it.

crocogator said:
Character_ciphers should be meta tags. See digicode_text (a cipher of Japanese kana or the English alphabet from the Digimon franchise) and unown_text (a cipher of the English alphabet from the Pokemon franchise). Such tags should also imply character_cipher.

EDIT: "Alienese" from Futurama is another character cipher, but I don't know if we have any posts containing it.

Should wingdings be aliased to wingdings_text and changed to meta too?

faucet said:
Should wingdings be aliased to wingdings_text and changed to meta too?

To be consistent, yes? I remember years ago seeing what it does to text. Some people actually used it that way on purpose.

The bulk update request #4685 is active.

create alias te_reo_text (1) -> maori_text (3)
create implication standard_galactic_text (3) -> character_cipher (457)
change category runic_text (42) -> meta
create implication trunic_text (14) -> character_cipher (457)
create implication toki_pona_text (8) -> constructed_language (481)
create implication eorzean_text (3) -> character_cipher (457)
create implication na'vi_text (1) -> fictional_language (399)
create alias windings (0) -> wingdings_text (71)
create alias wingdings (0) -> wingdings_text (71)
change category wingdings_text (71) -> meta
create implication wingdings_text (71) -> character_cipher (457)

Reason: Today, e6 taught me of the existence of a bunch of new languages and writing systems and conscripts/conlangs...

Faroese is a Germanic language spoken in the Faroe Islands.
Maori is a Polynesian language spoken by the the indigenous population of New Zealand.
Te Reo and Maori are the same language.
Aurebesh_text is a conscript from Star_Wars.
Galactic_text is also from Star Wars, I think? I renamed it standard_galactic_text for clarity, and it's from commander_keen and minecraft.
Runic_text is an archaic writing system that was once used to write various Germanic languages before the Latin alphabet was used.
Trunic_text is from Tunic_(video_game). It's treated as if it were its own language, but it's really just English written phonetically with a rather complicated conscript.
old_english_text is self-explanatory.
Furbish_text refers to the speech used by Furby toys. Apparently it's not gibberish--the limited set of words have actual meaning.
Toki Pona is perhaps the most well-known conlang not created for fiction other than Esperanto.
Eorzean_text is a conscript from final_fantasy.
Na'vi is a conlang from james_cameron's_avatar.
Wingdings_text was discussed earlier in this thread. Windings seems to be a common typo of wingdings.

EDIT: added implications to character_cipher
EDIT 2: Added the implications to constructed_language. Also, I've added eorzean_text which was only mentioned in the "Reason" but forgotten in the actual BUR.
EDIT 3: Manually renamed galactic_text to standard_galactic_text and updated the BUR accordingly
EDIT 4: updated the BUR to include Wingdings. Also, I updated the BUR order for hopefully easier readability.

EDIT: The bulk update request #4685 (forum #364111) has been approved by @slyroon.

crocogator said:
Galactic_text is also from Star Wars, I think?

This name seems too generic to me. There's nothing to indicate it's for Star Wars only, and not any other space sci-fi setting with its own script (possibly even with a more real constructed language, instead of a character cipher).

runic_text has me a bit concerned too. Of course, it's a real world thing, but I fear people would use it for made up fantasy text with rune-like characters and not real-world runic scripts.

watsit said:
This name seems too generic to me. There's nothing to indicate it's for Star Wars only, and not any other space sci-fi setting with its own script (possibly even with a more real constructed language, instead of a character cipher).

It's a good thing you said that, since it made me realize I was mixing up "Standard Galactic" with "Galactic Basic". I should've looked into that one more before putting it in the BUR... "Galactic Basic" is apparently what English is called in Star Wars, and it's not related to that tag (though it is related to the aurebesh_text tag). galactic_text refers to the Standard Galactic Alphabet, which originates from the Commander_Keen video games, but was also later used in Minecraft. I'll manually rename it to standard_galactic_text and update the BUR.

crocogator said:
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heya! This seems to coincide with topic #33769 which does more of the language shuffling around sort of deal.

cutefox123 said:
heya! This seems to coincide with topic #33769 which does more of the language shuffling around sort of deal.

Ugh, I should've checked. There is some overlap. I wonder if I should remove the overlapping items from my BUR, or even close this out and make a new one in the other thread?

One notable difference between my BUR and the ones you made is that you have aurebesh_text and eorzean_text imply fictional_language while I have them imply character_cipher. My reasoning was that a language needs its own vocabulary and grammar, while aurebesh_text and eorzean_text seem to just be English written with fictional alphabets to make them look like fictional languages.

^{Pedantic side note: trunic_text (not mentioned in your BURs) is a weird one, since it's technically-speaking not even an alphabet. It's English written purely phonetically, but rather than a simple left-to-right string of characters, the symbols are written in blocks to represent syllables, similar to how Korean writing works. So, it works in a more complicated way than what all the other character ciphers are doing, but I think it's still reasonable to have it imply character_cipher anyways.}

https://e621.net/forum_topics/38350 See also, this topic about transliteration.

The bulk update request #4685 (forum #364111) has been approved by @slyroon.