On Jun 3, 2018, at 06:57, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
First, most of the fonts use the k=q q=Q variant.
Right, this is what I meant when I said that variant appears to be prevalent.
As you mentioned before, some use lower case, some upper case. The KLI's font used uper case because the lower case is maped with a different font type. So that should be XIFAN HOL.
Yeah, I’m really talking about more than just fonts here. In this case I’m using xifan hol as a kind of interchange format to avoid problems with case sensitivity and ' as a letter instead of punctuation.
The Klingonska Akademien font uses lower case, xifan hol, which might be easier to type, but with using caps lock makes it no difference.
It does make a difference if you’ve remapped caps lock, as many people do. I often use caps lock as compose, since it’s the only sane way to type accented characters from multiple different Latin alphabet using languages within a single keyboard layout. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have had any reservations about using XIFAN HOL, since I’ve never observed any K=Q; Q=q variant of that.
Another thing that might b confusing is that some fonts map the apostrophe differently (' or z), so that should also be considered.
Right, I’m using z, since I don’t want to spend unknown amounts of time hunting down bugs in the DNN TTS software where treating ' as a letter becomes problematic. I had already decided on using xifan hol anyway, because a cursory inspection of the source code suggested that one of the analysis passes normalizes the case of letters, and I wanted to avoid problems with q vs Q, and also words like vengHom or nenghep.
I don't know if you have checked the Klingon wiki on that, because here's quite alot about pIqaD and also about conversion.
http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/PIqaD http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Fonts http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Perl http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Unicode
The wiki did come up when I searched for “xifan hol” to try to see if this had been discussed before, but I didn’t see any place where the existence of multiple variants was discussed. I can add a page dedicated to xifan hol later.
-- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de
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