New ISO 639 language identifier - Klingon

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Wed Feb 25 17:54:35 CET 2004


At 11:43 -0500 2004-02-25, Tex Texin wrote:
>So Klingon is in Latin when written in Japan, Russia, etc.? And the 
>transcription is spelled the same way in all markets?

Does it matter? Kurdish is written in three different scripts.

>I was not saying it shouldn't have been registered. I do think it 
>would be good if there was some coordination among the various 
>standards bodies to ensure there these things were treated as a 
>conceptual whole, and not in pieces.

That, ah, would be *us*, Tex. ;-)

>It's not clear to me that having a tag doesn't increase the demand 
>for native script, or that the demand hasn't increased since the 
>decision was taken to not include the script.

If there were a genuine demand for the native script, it would be a 
candidate for encoding in Unicode.

>I also wonder if it should be registered as tlh-latn.

That would be a variety of Klingon.
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