[86099] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography (was: Okrand at qep'a')
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Sun Jun 28 10:12:20 2009
In-Reply-To: <f5b478ef0906272234p25c92ffbgb76683fe65e00270@mail.gmail.com>
From: "ghunchu'wI'" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:09:28 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Jun 28, 2009, at 1:34 AM, qa'vaj wrote:
> -- Are the options that you displayed selected so that each one can
> be typed
> with a single standard internationalized keyboard from the set that
> are
> provided by Linux / Windows / Mac? Or would we need to construct a
> special
> keyboard for some of them?
I think the idea is that you'd have to use a special keyboard driver
if you wanted to type without needing to do workarounds like the four-
keypress dance he said he uses for the glottal stop character.
At least one of his proposals seems to contain a character which
isn't yet supported on many platforms using *any* keystrokes.
Given that special effort would be required in any event, I have no
idea why he is so dismissive of the existing PUA mapping for Klingon
text.
-- ghunchu'wI'
