tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 17 12:27:44 2009
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Re: recent boing boing post and Unicode
- From: Doq <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: recent boing boing post and Unicode
- Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 15:26:42 -0400
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I highly recommend human editing, regardless of the automation used.
Nothing is foolproof. Fools can be so inventive.
Doq
On May 17, 2009, at 10:08 AM, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
> On May 16, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>
>> Writing an algorithm to convert romanized Hol to a pIqaD-friendly
>> format is relatively trivial.
>
> If you can assume the source document is well-formed, and that it
> contains Klingon letters only, then it's easy. It's not much harder
> to include a check for unreasonable alphabetic characters (e.g.
> "k"). But what do you do with punctuation? Commas and periods have
> a traditional mapping to up- and down-pointing triangles, but that's
> it. Do you map question marks to periods and rely on grammar to
> convey the difference? Do you count semicolons and dashes as comma-
> like pauses as well? What do you do with quotations?
>
> Mixed-language source introduces an entirely different set of
> challenges, with the question of how to resolve them being somewhat
> more philosophical than technical. /QQ/QQ0407.html?
> mode=XIFAN shows one possibility, though there are still glitches.
>
> -- ghunchu'wI'
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