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Apologies for posting something from a blog I contribute to -- but it's really from a colleague and I don't see any other way to give him credit. Not an earth-shaker, but kind of cool to see that Brother Brigham has been recognized, if somewhat obliquely, by Apple as a typographic pioneer :-)
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(I first "discovered" the Deseret Alphabet in OS X when OS X first shipped in 2001, and the inclusion of it in OS X led me to learn more about it, now that I had the glyphs on my computer.)
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
$1.25 to download a primer at http://www.lulu.com/content/158100
"Unicode and the Deseret Alphabet
In late 1996, John H. Jenkins of Apple proposed that the Deseret Alphabet be included in the Unicode standard. His proposal was quickly accepted and in 2001 it was incorporated into the Unicode 3.1 standard. It included the 38 characters that were used to print the 4 books in the Deseret Alphabet in the late 1860s.
Ken Beesley of Xerox proposed in a Unicode Conference in 2002 that because earlier version of the Deseret Alphabet sometimes included 40 characters, that the Deseret Alphabet in Unicode be augmented to include 2 more characters to represent the 2 extra characters that were used. It was accpeted and the 2 extra characters are present in the current Unicode 4.1 standard.
The current Unicode chart for the Deseret Alphabet, in positions 10400 to 1044F, can be found at www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10400.pdf. To see if your browser supports the Deseret Alphabet in Unicode, you can go to www.unicode.org/standard/translations/deseret.html. It is a transcription of the "What is Unicode?" page found at www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html, and if your browser supports it you'll see the page in the Deseret Alphabet. Mac OS X comes with support for the Deseret Alphabet in Unicode."
Get the full Triple in Deseret courtsey of Mr. Jenkins at:
http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/Deseret/Triple.pdf