OK! I'm freshly back from the qep'a' cha'maH cha'DIch in Chicago,
and I have to report that Klingon pIqaD really is out there and
getting some use, despite having been banished to the PUA. I've
seen it on a wine-bottle label (commercially produced, not someone's
homebrew), on the Klingon version of the Monopoly game, a book or
two (NOT published by the KLI); there are websites using it (but
then there were last time I mentioned this and that didn't seem to
count then), and apparently support for it on several platforms,
including a smartphone keypad, to say nothing of quite a few
T-shirts. Apparently there is a small community actually using
pIqaD to (*gasp*) exchange information via SMS. I'm copying Chris
Lipscombe on this email; he is better plugged in to the use of pIqaD
in Real Life™ (don't forget to Reply All if you want to include him,
since I think he isn't on the list at the moment).
What has to be done to get this encoded? The proposal is likely
still more or less what we need, and it probably has at least as
much online information interchange as, say, Gondi does ("Well, what
do you expect, Gondi isn't encoded yet!" "Neither is pIqaD.") Are
we ready to revisit this question again?
~mark
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