Request to add language Shavian (American) on Weblate

Hello. I am Athendwyl. Shavian is an alternative alphabet for English, and would like to transliterate the application into it, specifically the american variant, as that is the one I am familiar with and have done much transliteration into. It is on Weblate as “English (Shavian script, United States) (en_Shaw_US)”

Below is a sample sentence and its transliteration:

I like trains.

𐑲 𐑤𐑲𐑒 𐑑𐑮𐑱𐑯𐑟.

Hmm, I’m not sure about this to be honest. The language feels like something very few people learn for fun, not like an actual language that is someone’s native language. I mean, we also don’t offer Klingon translations and there are probably more speakers of Klingon…

Besides, I’m pretty sure that Android does not support Shavian, so you wouldn’t be able to select the language.

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Fair. Android does support Shavian; I use it on Discord and much of the transliteration I’ve done on there, but I understand not wanting to support something so niche and of no actual usefulness to anybody. In this particular case as well, you’d also not have any other people to verify that my transliterations are actually what I say they are, and not complete nonsense.