From: Jon Hanna (jon@hackcraft.net)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 13:04:53 EST
Quoting Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>:
> From: <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
> > Michael Everson scripsit:
> > > At 14:53 +0100 2004-01-15, Chris Jacobs wrote:
> > > >WHY THEN DISTRIBUTES THE KLI SUCH A BLATANTLY UNCONFORMANT FONT?
> > >
> > > yIjachQo'. vItlhob.
> > >
> > > {{{:-)
> >
> > Demonstrating once again that the One True Script for Klingon is Latin.
>
> Not really: look at how uppercase letters are used: case mapping, which is
> quite safe in languages written with the Latin script, completely breaks the
> Klingon text...
>
> Michael did not write: "Yijachqo'. Vitlhob."
>
A locale-sensitive title-case operations for the Klingon language would not
produce "Yijachqo'. Vitlhob." from "yIjachQo'. vItlhob." any more than a
locale-sensitive title-case operation for the Irish language would produce
"Nathair" from "nAthair" although a deliberately "fuzzy" case-folding operation
might.
If Klingon isn't in the Latin script the joke about having the word "ghoti" for
fish isn't as funny.
-- Jon Hanna <http://www.hackcraft.net/> *Thought provoking quote goes here*
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