tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 24 16:40:59 2003
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Re: [tlhingan-hol] Re: Klingon Unicode
I and a friend of mine (Mark Reed, who occasionally posts here) have taken
standard unicode fonts for Windows and, usng freeware font editors and
purchased copies of the KLI pIqaDmey font, managed to encode the pIqaD
font in the appropriate section of the fonts, thus allowing for typing in
tlhIngan and English together without changing font faces.
The Unicode proposal is linked
here: http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1643/n1643.htm and is what we
followed.
Unfortunately, the source fonts are copyrighted, so there's no way I could
post links to files. I would love, however, to see converted fonts made
available for sale on a new font disk from the PLI one day, as we can
currently only send tlhIngan-font emails to each other and no one else. Bleh.
I find that most email programs have a bit of difficulty with making it
easy to type alternate Unicode characters. Some day, I'd like to be able
to just hit a function key or hold down a shift or alt key and type easily
in pIqaD, switching easily and seamlessly between the two languages...
At 02:26 PM 9/24/03 -0400, you wrote:
>http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline40.html
>The proposal was rejected. See link, scroll to near the end on the page..
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Heather Myers" <[email protected]>
>To: "tlhIngan-Hol mail list" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:06 PM
>Subject: Klingon Unicode
>
>
>
>At the last Flourtown qepHom, I seem to remember some chat about Unicode
>with respect to Klingon. Someone on the Klingon LiveJournal group
>recently posted about the phonological constraints of Klingon (as a
>non-linguist, I'm not sure what that means, even having read the post).
>The poster seemed to be trying to write Klingon using a different
>writing system (Hangul). One of his comments was: "Of course, then the
>problem is that you can't write it with a computer because it's not in
>Unicode :("
>
>What is the status of Unicode with respect to Klingon? I'd like to let
>these folks know.
>
>Satlho'
>
>jIqel ghojwI'
><batlh wo' yejHaD je vItoy'mo' 'e' jIHem>