patch-1.3.43 linux/Documentation/unicode.txt

• Lines: 92
• Date: Sat Nov 18 12:08:28 1995
• Orig file: v1.3.42/linux/Documentation/unicode.txt
• Orig date: Sun Sep 3 12:26:48 1995

diff -u --recursive --new-file v1.3.42/linux/Documentation/unicode.txt linux/Documentation/unicode.txt
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
 user-defined map now defaults to U+F000 to U+F1FF, emulating the
 previous behaviour.
 
+Actual characters assigned in the Corporate Zone
+------------------------------------------------
+
 In addition, the following characters not present in Unicode 1.1.4 (at
 least, I have not found them!) have been defined; these are used by
 the DEC VT graphics map:
@@ -45,5 +48,79 @@
 character, and hence has been coded as U+2500 FORMS LIGHT HORIZONTAL.
 However, I left U+F802 blank should the need arise.  
 
-	H. Peter Anvin <Peter.Anvin@linux.org>
-	Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.
+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 lanugages 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 "Corporate" Zone.
+
+Several glyph forms for the Klingon alphabet has 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 is
+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
+
+
+	H. Peter Anvin <hpa@storm.net>