On 6/2/2018 3:08 PM, nIqolay Q wrote:
boQwI' gives you an option of using k -> {q} or {Q}, is that something feasible on your end?
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.
I prefer /k/ -> *q*. In transliteration, /k/ that isn't part of a cluster nearly always ends up as *q,* while /kr/ tends to be the transliteration of *Q. *Since native English speakers consider /k/ simpler than consonant clusters of /k,/ and since /k /is more common than /q,/ and /q /is odd to an English speaker with a following /u,/ I think /k/ is more suitable for *q.* It's just a bias for an arbitrary choice though, not a logical argument for it.
(Obviously, we should ask Okrand to make a ruling one way or another, just to sort it out.)
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 *pIqaD* on them, so there's no mapping issue. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name