[tlhIngan Hol] pIqaD in Unicode--again

mayqel qunenoS mihkoun at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 23:18:27 PST 2016


loghaD:
> https://twitter.com/pIqaD

I went to that link, but I see a lot of squares, where some characters
ought to be. Is there a fix for this ?

qunnoH jan puqloD

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm at kth.se> wrote:
> Lovely!
>
> I'd recommend adding some more examples of use by the Klingon-speaking community and random folks, rather than focusing CBS/Paramount sources. After all, we've been using this writing system since before it was cool, and it makes the argument that there's a community behind it, rather than just a company.
>
> To name some examples:
>
> Every day, chaDQI posts original pIqaD calligraphy on Instagram, normally tagged #klingonshodo:
> https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/klingonshodo/
>
> Every day, qurgh's Klingon Word of the Day on Facebook supplies pIqaD transliterations for all words.
>
> The Misfit Shine has product details written in pIqaD:
> https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/20/the-secret-is-klingon/
>
> The app sBASSdrum had a press release written in pIqaD:
> http://www.seqmedia.com/projects/sbassdrum/sBASSdrum_Klingon_PressRelease_20140210.pdf
>
> People have been playing Scrabble using pIqaD for more than a decade:
> 2004 source: http://www.lillsjon.net/~v108e/swecon.html
> More recent source: http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Scrabble
>
> ...and now there's also Bananagrams:
> https://twitter.com/Bananagrams_uk/status/525971513229725696
>
> ...and at least two versions of 2048:
> iOS: https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/10363505_10152422262290120_2156347043703533814_n.jpg?oh=989535f178f4c11112a29af2d0a63eb1&oe=588D426B
> HTML5: https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/10363505_10152422262290120_2156347043703533814_n.jpg?oh=989535f178f4c11112a29af2d0a63eb1&oe=588D426B
>
> I've collected quite a few examples - large and small - using the Twitter account @pIqaD:
> https://twitter.com/pIqaD
>
> //loghaD
>
> ________________________________________
> From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces at lists.kli.org> on behalf of Mark Shoulson <mark at kli.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 02:16
> To: tlhIngan-Hol at kli.org
> Subject: [tlhIngan Hol] pIqaD in Unicode--again
>
> Thought I would let people here know, since I have sort of acted on my
> own on this.  I've submitted another paper to the Unicode Consortium
> asking to encode pIqaD finally:
> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16329-piqad-returns.pdf  They always
> said it wasn't encoded because people weren't using it: I disprove that
> claim in the document.  The discussion on the mailing list there is
> starting to heat up again; this time they're saying that there are
> problems with Paramount's copyright and all, but that's also not
> relevant, and even if it is, they should decide whether or not to encode
> and *then* we'll worry about difficulties carrying that out.
>
> Anyway, just informing folks.  I've been talking to various UTC members,
> and the official UTC meeting is this week or next week or something, so
> it will be brought up then and they'll probably have at least some sort
> of response after that.  I'm not going to let them off the hook without
> at least some *sensible* answer and a path forward (and an explanation
> as to why the Tolkien alphabets, which apparently may also have
> copyright issues, are on the Roadmap, even if they aren't encoded, while
> pIqaD is not only not on the roadmap, but given as an example on the
> "Not on the Roadmap" page as something not worthy of being there.)  Just
> FYI.
>
> ~mark
>
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