Klingon Again (was Re: New Locale Proposal)

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 09:59:38 EDT


From: "Antoine Leca" <Antoine.Leca@renault.fr>

> The argument is not very strong, since ISO/IEC 10646 is the preferred code
page
> to use for 15897; and furthermore the fact that it is code page based
allow
> to write e.g. a Klingon locale, which may be quite difficult to do if
Unicode-
> based (one has to use PUA, which impedes portability).

Actually, almost none of the "speakers" of Klingon even understand any form
of the language other than the Latin based script, which is of course
completely able to be represented in ASCII.

michka

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