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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/2/2018 3:08 PM, nIqolay Q wrote:<br>
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">boQwI' gives you
an option of using k -> {q} or {Q}, is that something
feasible on your end? <br>
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I prefer to use
boQwI' with k -> {Q}, since I can just use q for {q}. But I
have noticed that some fonts use k for {q} and q for {Q} (or,
technically, they use K for {q} and Q for {Q}, since the fonts
map pIqaD to capital letters). I think I might be in the
minority on this one. <br>
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<p>I prefer <i>k</i> -> <b>q</b>. In transliteration, <i>k</i>
that isn't part of a cluster nearly always ends up as <b>q,</b>
while <i>kr</i> tends to be the transliteration of <b>Q. </b>Since
native English speakers consider <i>k</i> simpler than consonant
clusters of <i>k,</i> and since <i>k </i>is more common than <i>q,</i>
and <i>q </i>is odd to an English speaker with a following <i>u,</i>
I think <i>k</i> is more suitable for <b>q.</b> It's just a bias
for an arbitrary choice though, not a logical argument for it.<br>
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">(Obviously, we
should ask Okrand to make a ruling one way or another, just to
sort it out.)</div>
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<p>A ruling on what? Okrand isn't in charge of keyboard mappings or
anything like that; he isn't even in charge of what Klingon LOOKS
like. All he knows is what Maltz tells him, and Maltz will just
say Klingon computers already have <b>pIqaD</b> on them, so
there's no mapping issue.<br>
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