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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Mangling Klingon to make it sortable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Fri Jul 12 13:18:10 2013
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:17:47 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <20130712180020.7497fbde@topdeck>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On 7/12/2013 1:00 PM, Phil Reynolds wrote:
> I am looking for a way to take Klingon words and - possibly reversibly
> - mangle them in some way to make most non-Klingon-aware software able
> to sort them into proper Klingon alphabetical order.
Assuming "'" comes before "a" in your character set...
Change "gh" to "g"
Change "ch" to "c"
Change "'" to "z"
Change "ng" to "nz"
Change "tlh" to "tz"
Change "Q" to "qz"
Now sort, then undo those conversions.
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