Re: Do we need a Klingon in Unicode (was Re: What happened to ....?)

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Oct 20 1999 - 06:10:40 EDT


Ar 16:30 +0900 1999-10-20, scríobh Hirotaka Yoshioka:
>Michael Everson wrote:
>> >>Klingons rear their noble foreheads again. {{:-)
>> >
>> >There is already a proposal for adding Klingon to UniCode so we can ignore
>> >them.
>>
>> I know. I wrote it. See
>>http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n1643/n1643.htm
>
>Is it a joke or serious proposal?

Why should it be considered a joke? If there is a user community interested
in such a thing....

I think the Tengwar and Cirth proposals (also invented alphabets) are far
more important, however.

It remains to be seen whether UTC and WG2 will accept Klingon, but in the
meantime we are concentrating on the Tai scripts of Southeast Asia.

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