From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2005 - 11:19:41 CST
UList@dfa-mail.com wrote:
>Hello,
>
>What is the reaction to using E0000 language tags for Klingon and Phoenician.
>
>Klingon: use Latin transliteration text, plus a smart font to swap in Klingon
>glyphs when the E0000 "Klingon" language tags are encountered.
>
>Phoenician: use Hebrew transliteration text plus a smart font to swap in
>Phoenician glyphs when the E0000 "Phoenician" language tags are encountered.
>
>I know you love language tags!
>
>
Brilliant idea. We can really economize on code-space that way. We can
use the same code-points for extended Latin and for Hebrew--just call
one of them something random, like ISO-8859-1, and the other some other
randomly-chosen name, like ISO-8859-8.
>I can even justify putting Klingon on the Latin codepoints:
>
>Just draw a chart that shows Latin letters slowly *morphing* into Klingon glyphs.
>
>Claim Klingon glyphs are highly stylized, ornamental Latin letters.
>
>Knew you'd like that.
>
>
Can you show me how the Latin letters tlh slowly morph into the single
glyph for that phoneme? Or how it is that 'n' and 'ng' morph into very
different single glyphs?
~mark
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