[85457] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: recent boing boing post and Unicode
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doq)
Sun May 17 15:28:13 2009
From: Doq <doq@embarqmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <174D54EF-D3EB-4F1C-867F-602099883566@alcaco.net>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 15:26:42 -0400
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
I highly recommend human editing, regardless of the automation used.
Nothing is foolproof. Fools can be so inventive.
Doq
On May 17, 2009, at 10:08 AM, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
> On May 16, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>
>> Writing an algorithm to convert romanized Hol to a pIqaD-friendly
>> format is relatively trivial.
>
> If you can assume the source document is well-formed, and that it
> contains Klingon letters only, then it's easy. It's not much harder
> to include a check for unreasonable alphabetic characters (e.g.
> "k"). But what do you do with punctuation? Commas and periods have
> a traditional mapping to up- and down-pointing triangles, but that's
> it. Do you map question marks to periods and rely on grammar to
> convey the difference? Do you count semicolons and dashes as comma-
> like pauses as well? What do you do with quotations?
>
> Mixed-language source introduces an entirely different set of
> challenges, with the question of how to resolve them being somewhat
> more philosophical than technical. http://www.kli.org/QQ/QQ0407.html?
> mode=XIFAN shows one possibility, though there are still glitches.
>
> -- ghunchu'wI'
>
>
>
