On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 00:09:11 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Kuhn) wrote:
> Dan Kogai wrote on 2002-03-26 22:35 UTC: > > And not all > > scripts are accepted or approved by Unicode Consotium. If you want to > > spell in Klingon, you have to find your own encoding. > > Klingon is a very bad example. The entire available Klingon language > literature uses a Latin transcription of Klingon, therefore is was > decided decided after consultation with leading Klingon experts that > ASCII fullfills the requirements of the Klingon language community > perfectly and that no Unicode extension is necessary. The Klingon script > that was proposed by Everson to the Unicode consortium turned out to be > nothing but a part of the set decoration of some Star Trek movies, which > is copyrighted by Paramount Pictures and which is not actually used to > write Klingon by anyone. Isn't it partly a chicken-and-egg problem? It's hard to write Klingon in those funny characters because they're not really supported by software since there is no commonly agreed-on encoding. However, I'm not a Klingon expert. Cheers, Philip
