Linuxtrent: unicode.txt
- From: Mattia Merzi <merzi@xxxxxx>
- To: linuxtrent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:47:02 +0100 (MET)
Dalla documentazione del kernel 2.4.16
$LINUX/Documentation/unicode.txt:
The Linux kernel code has been rewritten to use Unicode to map
characters to fonts. By downloading a single Unicode-to-font table, both
the eight-bit character sets and UTF-8 mode are changed to use the font
as indicated.
[...]
Klingon language support
------------------------
Unfortunately, Unicode/ISO 10646 does not allocate code points for the
language Klingon, probably fearing the potential code point explosion if
many fictional languages were submitted for inclusion. There are also
political reasons (the Japanese, for example, are not too happy about
the whole 16-bit concept to begin with.) However, with Linux being a
hacker-driven OS it seems this is a brilliant linguistic hack worth
supporting. Hence I have chosen to add it to the list in the Linux Zone.
Several glyph forms for the Klingon alphabet have been proposed.
However, since the set of symbols appear to be consistent throughout,
with only the actual shapes being different, in keeping with standard
Unicode practice these differences are considered font variants.
Klingon has an alphabet of 26 characters, a positional numeric writing
system with 10 digits, and is written left-to-right, top-to-bottom.
Punctuation appears to be only used in Latin transliteration; it appears
customary to write each sentence on its own line, and centered. Space
has been reserved for punctuation should it prove necessary.
This encoding has been endorsed by the Klingon Language Institute. For
more information, contact them at:
http://www.kli.org/
Since the characters in the beginning of the Linux CZ have been more of
the dingbats/symbols/forms type and this is a language, I have located
it at the end, on a 16-cell boundary in keeping with standard Unicode
practice.
U+F8D0 KLINGON LETTER A
U+F8D1 KLINGON LETTER B
U+F8D2 KLINGON LETTER CH
U+F8D3 KLINGON LETTER D
U+F8D4 KLINGON LETTER E
U+F8D5 KLINGON LETTER GH
U+F8D6 KLINGON LETTER H
U+F8D7 KLINGON LETTER I
U+F8D8 KLINGON LETTER J
U+F8D9 KLINGON LETTER L
U+F8DA KLINGON LETTER M
U+F8DB KLINGON LETTER N
U+F8DC KLINGON LETTER NG
U+F8DD KLINGON LETTER O
U+F8DE KLINGON LETTER P
U+F8DF KLINGON LETTER Q
- Written <q> in standard Okrand Latin transliteration
U+F8E0 KLINGON LETTER QH
- Written <Q> in standard Okrand Latin transliteration
U+F8E1 KLINGON LETTER R
U+F8E2 KLINGON LETTER S
U+F8E3 KLINGON LETTER T
U+F8E4 KLINGON LETTER TLH
U+F8E5 KLINGON LETTER U
U+F8E6 KLINGON LETTER V
U+F8E7 KLINGON LETTER W
U+F8E8 KLINGON LETTER Y
U+F8E9 KLINGON LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
U+F8F0 KLINGON DIGIT ZERO
U+F8F1 KLINGON DIGIT ONE
U+F8F2 KLINGON DIGIT TWO
U+F8F3 KLINGON DIGIT THREE
U+F8F4 KLINGON DIGIT FOUR
U+F8F5 KLINGON DIGIT FIVE
U+F8F6 KLINGON DIGIT SIX
U+F8F7 KLINGON DIGIT SEVEN
U+F8F8 KLINGON DIGIT EIGHT
U+F8F9 KLINGON DIGIT NINE
Other Fictional and Artificial Scripts
--------------------------------------
Since the assignment of the Klingon Linux Unicode block, a registry of
fictional and artificial scripts has been established by John Cowan,
<cowan@xxxxxxxx>. The ConScript Unicode Registry is accessible at
http://locke.ccil.org/~cowan/csur/; the ranges used fall at the bottom
of the End User Zone and can hence not be normatively assigned, but it
is recommended that people who wish to encode fictional scripts use
these codes, in the interest of interoperability. For Klingon, CSUR
has adopted the Linux encoding.
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