New ISO 639 language identifier - Klingon

Tex Texin tex at xencraft.com
Thu Feb 26 03:20:15 CET 2004


thanks Jon, that's clear.
tex

Jon Hanna wrote:
> 
> Quoting Tex Texin <tex at xencraft.com>:
> 
> > So Klingon is in Latin when written in Japan, Russia, etc.?
> 
> Unless it's transcribed.
> 
> > And the transcription is spelled the same way in all markets?
> 
> You don't transcribe Klingon into Latin, Latin is its natural script. If you
> consider the glyphs that are used exclusively with Klingon to be a separate
> script then you are transcribing it when you are using that script. If you
> consider those glyphs to be a Latin cypher then you are not transcribing.
> 
> > I also wonder if it should be registered as tlh-latn.
> 
> That idea is as good or as bad as en-latn.
> 
> --
> Jon Hanna
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> "
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