tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 14 22:46:47 2004
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Opinions needed on Klingon pIqaD keyboard mapping
Do you use the semi-official Klingon pIqaD glyphs, or think you might in
the future? Klingon was rejected for inclusion in Unicode because almost
everyone uses the romanization, but this is a catch-22 because the
technological barrier prevents us from communicating in pIqaD. Let's fix that.
It's not actually that hard to learn (I was pleasantly surprised), and it's
fun.
Please reply to <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] if you wish to
discuss this writing system.
There are a number of fonts and keyboard mappings out there. We should
standardize a keyboard mapping that accommodates everyone's preferences.
Are there any keys you would like to use to produce particular characters,
or symbols that are missing?
Press this to get this
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tilde (~) Klingon symbol for Empire aka Klingon
Mumification Glyph
Numbers 1-0 pIqaD digits.
Shifted numbers as US keyboard: !@#$%^&*()
Hyphen (-) same (-)
Underscore(_) same (_)
+/= up triangle/down triangle (punctuation seen
in on-screen pIqaD)
q q symbol
Q Q symbol
k q symbol
K q symbol
H H symbol
h does *nothing*, to prevent people from
typing chh and ghh all the time
N ng symbol
f ng symbol
x tlh symbol
T tlh symbol
c ch symbol
g gh symbol
z '
All other letters corresponding symbol, regardless of whether
upper or lower case is typed.
< > angle quotes, as seen in French
All other punctuation same as US layout
I apologize for the overlap between mailing lists. I'm on all of them too.
Please forward to anyone you know who uses pIqaD but isn't on these lists.
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