Deseret
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The Deseret Unicode block contains the characters of the Deseret alphabet, which was developed in the mid-1800s by the early Mormon settlers of Utah as a simplified, phonetic script for English. Although never widely adopted, the Deseret alphabet remains a unique experiment in language and orthography reform.
Deseret ( ) is a Unicode block containing characters in the Deseret alphabet, which were invented by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to write English. The Deseret block was derived from an earlier private use encoding in the ConScript Unicode Registry, like the Shavian and Phaistos Disc encodings. The block was added in version 3.1 of the Unicode Standard; the letters Oi and Ew, both uppercase and lowercase, were added in version 4.0.