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>From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...] >A few weeks ago, Mark Hughes wrote: > > But the > > apostrophe is an essential character in Klingon, so you can't currently > > write Klingon XML markup. Given that there are more Klingon users and > > programmers than some of the omitted scripts (there's even a Klingon > > programming language, var'aq), this is obviously a dire flaw in XML. >I blew this off at the time, but of course Klingon native-language >markup *is* supported. You simply must use U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER >APOSTROPHE, which looks like the ASCII apostrophe in its curly >form, but is explicitly a letter. I wasn't totally joking there; Klingon is a silly and unspeakable language (it rips up human throats too much for real use, though I've had short conversations in it in the past when I was more fluent), but it has a lot to commend it - it's very direct and precise (like a sharp knife). I'm not happy with the idea of using a non-ASCII character that I can't type on my keyboard instead of an apostrophe, though, especially given that Romanized Klingon specifically uses the ASCII apostrophe - so you'd use apostrophe in content and U+02BC in markup. That'd make searching through a document or doing software text matching a pain. Still, at least it *can* be done. -- <a href="http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/"> Mark Hughes </a>
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