Re: [Lingo] Re: Archives should now handle 日本語、English, и Бьлгарски / Русский

[steven smith <sjs@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:
> On 02/07/07, Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 23:21:56 +0900, "Pietro Zuco" <drzuco@example.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > > Greek and Thai were either side of the Nepalese, and Malayalam was
> > > > at the bottom after the Farsi, Arabic and Hebrew.
> > >
> > > And what about Elfish language characters? ;-)
> >
> > Sindarin or Quenya? :)
>
> Are these actually in Unicode? I know I've seen Sindarin and Quenya
> fonts, as well as Dwarvish runes, Black Speech, etc. back in the day,
> but I think they just mapped to ASCII.
>
> What about Klingon?
A few years back I saw Damian Conway give a presentation in 
which he had a program written in Klingon using the Linga 
Perl Module.  This discusses the module and programming in 
Klingon.  Unfortunately he uses the Klingon equivalent of 
romaji instead of Klingon text.  At least Klingon syntax is 
discussed.
http://www.archlug.org/kwiki/KlingonPerlProgramming
Maybe this was pre perl 5.6 and we didn't handle UTF-8 yet.

There is discussion of Klingon fonts in both Truetype and 
Postscript Type 1 on the Klingon Language Institute web site 
at http://www.kli.org/tlh/, but they don't mention what font 
encoding they uses.

I didn't find anything about elves, dwarves or any of the 
other middle-earth languages though...

Surely as diverse as hTLUG is, there must be some Klingon's 
or Elvish members!

Steve S.