perl-unicode

Re: Encode::CJKguide

2002-03-27 02:09:00
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 00:09:11 +0000, 
Markus(_dot_)Kuhn(_at_)cl(_dot_)cam(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk (Markus
Kuhn) wrote:

Dan Kogai wrote on 2002-03-26 22:35 UTC:
And not all
scripts are accepted or approved by Unicode Consotium.  If you want to
spell in Klingon, you have to find your own encoding.

Klingon is a very bad example. The entire available Klingon language
literature uses a Latin transcription of Klingon, therefore is was
decided decided after consultation with leading Klingon experts that
ASCII fullfills the requirements of the Klingon language community
perfectly and that no Unicode extension is necessary. The Klingon script
that was proposed by Everson to the Unicode consortium turned out to be
nothing but a part of the set decoration of some Star Trek movies, which
is copyrighted by Paramount Pictures and which is not actually used to
write Klingon by anyone.

Isn't it partly a chicken-and-egg problem? It's hard to write Klingon in
those funny characters because they're not really supported by software
since there is no commonly agreed-on encoding.

However, I'm not a Klingon expert.

Cheers,
Philip