| ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N1643
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DATE: 1997-09-18 |
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DOC TYPE: | Expert contribution |
TITLE: | Proposal to encode Klingon
in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2 |
SOURCE: | Michael Everson, EGT (IE) |
PROJECT: | JTC1.02.18.02 |
STATUS: | Proposal. |
ACTION ID: | FYI |
DUE DATE: | -- |
DISTRIBUTION: | Worldwide |
MEDIUM: | Paper and web |
NO. OF PAGES: | 4 |
A. Administrative
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1. Title | Proposal to encode Klingon in Plane 1 of
ISO/IEC 10646-2 |
2. Requester's name | Michael Everson |
3. Requester type | Expert request |
4. Submission date | 1997-09-18 |
5. Requester's reference | |
6a. Completion | This is a complete proposal. |
6b. More information to be provided? | No |
B. Technical -- General
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1a. New script? Name? | Yes. Klingon |
1b. Addition of characters to existing block?
Name? | No. |
2. Number of characters | 37 |
3. Proposed category | Category B.1 |
4. Proposed level of implementation and
rationale | Level 1 |
5a. Character names included in proposal? | Yes |
5b. Character names in accordance with
guidelines? | Yes |
5c. Character shapes reviewable? | Yes |
6a. Who will provide computerized font? | Michael
Everson, Everson Gunn Teoranta |
6b. Font currently available? | Michael Everson,
Everson Gunn Teoranta |
6c. Font format? | TrueType |
7a. Are references (to other character sets, dictionaries,
descriptive texts, etc.) provided? | Yes. |
7b. Are published examples (such as samples from
newspapers, magazines, or other sources) of use of proposed characters
attached? | No |
8. Does the proposal address other aspects of character
data processing? | No |
C. Technical -- Justification
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1. Contact with the user community? | Yes, with the
Klingon Language Institute |
2. Information on the user community? | Klingon
enjoys both scholarly and popular use. |
3a. The context of use for the proposed
characters? | Used to write tlhIngan Hol, the Klingon
language. |
3b. Reference | |
4a. Proposed characters in current use? | Yes |
4b. Where? | By scholars and enthusiasts. |
5a. Characters should be encoded entirely in
BMP? | No. Positions U+0001 CDD0 - U+0001 CD7F are proposed for the
encoding. |
5b. Rationale | Accordance with the Roadmap. |
6. Should characters be kept in a continuous
range? | Yes |
7a. Can the characters be considered a presentation form of
an existing character or character sequence? | No. |
7b. Where? | |
7c. Reference | |
8a. Can any of the characters be considered to be similar
(in appearance or function) to an existing character? | No |
8b. Where? | |
8c. Reference | |
9a. Combining characters or use of composite sequences
included? | No |
9b. List of composite sequences and their corresponding
glyph images provided? | No |
10. Characters with any special properties such as control
function, etc. included? | No |
D. SC2/WG2 Administrative To be
completed by SC2/WG2
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1. Relevant SC 2/WG 2 document
numbers: | |
2. Status (list of meeting number and corresponding action
or disposition) | |
3. Additional contact to user communities, liaison
organizations etc. | |
4. Assigned category and assigned priority/time
frame | |
Other Comments | |
This encoding at derives from the Linux kernel source code
("Documentation/unicode.txt" by H. Peter Anvin, hpa@zytor.com), from which some of the
description here has been taken. This proposal differs from the Linux
registration by including an additional character, KLINGON SYMBOL FOR
EMPIRE at U+xxFF.
Several glyph forms for the Klingon alphabet are extant. The Qo'noS font,
designed for Star Trek: The Motion Picture by the Astra Image
Corporation, is the standard font used by the Klingon Language Instutute
and Paramount (though Paramount appears to use the characters
unsystematically vis ý vis the Klingon language). The Klinzhai font,
derived from The U.S.S. Enterprise Officer's Manual (1980), predates
Marc Okrand's Klingon Dictionary and does not have a standard
relationship to tlhIngan Hol or to the Qo'noS font.)
Klingon has an alphabet of 26 characters, a positional numeric writing
system with 10 digits, and is written left-to-right, top-to-bottom.
Punctuation appears to be only used in Latin transliteration. The standard
Okrand transliteration for Klingon runs as follows:
a b ch D e gh H I j l m n ng o p q Q r S t tlh u v w y '
In the names list below, "q" is written Q and "Q" is written
QH.
This encoding has been endorsed by the Klingon Language Institute (http://www.kli.org/).
U+xxD0 KLINGON LETTER A
U+xxD1 KLINGON LETTER B
U+xxD2 KLINGON LETTER CH
U+xxD3 KLINGON LETTER D
U+xxD4 KLINGON LETTER E
U+xxD5 KLINGON LETTER GH
U+xxD6 KLINGON LETTER H
U+xxD7 KLINGON LETTER I
U+xxD8 KLINGON LETTER J
U+xxD9 KLINGON LETTER L
U+xxDA KLINGON LETTER M
U+xxDB KLINGON LETTER N
U+xxDC KLINGON LETTER NG
U+xxDD KLINGON LETTER O
U+xxDE KLINGON LETTER P
U+xxDF KLINGON LETTER Q
U+xxE0 KLINGON LETTER QH
U+xxE1 KLINGON LETTER R
U+xxE2 KLINGON LETTER S
U+xxE3 KLINGON LETTER T
U+xxE4 KLINGON LETTER TLH
U+xxE5 KLINGON LETTER U
U+xxE6 KLINGON LETTER V
U+xxE7 KLINGON LETTER W
U+xxE8 KLINGON LETTER Y
U+xxE9 KLINGON LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
U+xxEA (This position shall not be used)
U+xxEB (This position shall not be used)
U+xxEB (This position shall not be used)
U+xxED (This position shall not be used)
U+xxEE (This position shall not be used)
U+xxEF (This position shall not be used)
U+xxF0 KLINGON DIGIT ZERO
U+xxF1 KLINGON DIGIT ONE
U+xxF2 KLINGON DIGIT TWO
U+xxF3 KLINGON DIGIT THREE
U+xxF4 KLINGON DIGIT FOUR
U+xxF5 KLINGON DIGIT FIVE
U+xxF6 KLINGON DIGIT SIX
U+xxF7 KLINGON DIGIT SEVEN
U+xxF8 KLINGON DIGIT EIGHT
U+xxF9 KLINGON DIGIT NINE
U+xxFA (This position shall not be used)
U+xxFB (This position shall not be used)
U+xxFC (This position shall not be used)
U+xxFD (This position shall not be used)
U+xxFE (This position shall not be used)
U+xxFF KLINGON SYMBOL FOR EMPIRE | |
HTML Michael Everson, everson@indigo.ie, http://www.indigo.ie/egt, Dublin,
1997-09-18