[Tlhingan-hol] Mangling Klingon to make it sortable

[Krenath]

Just a quick observation, but the alphabetical order we use isn't necessarily "proper Klingon alphabetical order" but rather derived from English/Romanized alphabetical order since we've actually never been told what order Klingons chose for their pIqaD characters...

 

On Jul 12, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Alan Anderson <qunchuy at alcaco.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Phil Reynolds
> <phil-klingon at tinsleyviaduct.com> wrote:
>> I am looking for a way to take Klingon words and - possibly reversibly
>> - mangle them in some way to make most non-Klingon-aware software able
>> to sort them into proper Klingon alphabetical order.
> 
> I know of one scheme that was independently devised by at least three
> different people.
> 
> ch -> C
> gh -> G
> ng -> N2
> n -> N1
> Q -> Q2
> q -> Q1
> tlh -> T2
> t -> T1
> ' -> Z
> 
> All other letters are converted to uppercase (otherwise, you need to
> do a case-insensitive sort).
> 
> -- ghunchu'wI'
> 
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