[Tlhingan-hol] Windows 8 and pIqaD fonts- solution to problem

[Robyn Stewart]

So out of curiosity, *can* those of you who have pIqaD installed read it in this message? 

    

 

Oh and Anthony, the Language Bar is at the right end of the strip at the bottom of the screen, I believe the area is called the tool tray. There are actually two icons, one that currently says EN and one that depicts a keyboard, so I can swap between Canadian English and Canadian Multilingual Standard, which I think has the accents in different places than the standard French keyboard I get with FR. It’s possible that if you only selected one input language at configuration time that you don’t have this, and it seems to a rather persistent part of the install. I say this because during the install process some of the native apps didn’t pay attention to the “preferred language” and just picked anything I had. To this day my PDF viewer and my weather are in Russian, and my outlook mouseover tips—not the whole interface, just the mouseover tips—are in French.

 

Holmey vIQejqu’.

 

- Qov

 

From: qurgh lungqIj [mailto:qurgh at wizage.net] 
Sent: March 11, 2015 6:44
To: SuStel
Cc: tlhIngan-Hol at kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Windows 8 and pIqaD fonts- solution to problem

 

I've had a pIqaD Unicode Keyboard Local and Font available for the last 6 years or so. You can download it from either http://hol.kag.org or my Blog: http://www.wizage.net/piqad-support/

 

It's designed for Windows 7, but it works on Windows 8.

 

qurgh

 

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:24 AM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:

On 3/11/2015 5:25 AM, De'vID wrote:

On 11 March 2015 at 04:53, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:

When I installed Windows 8, [...]
O frabjous day! jIQuch.  (I can read that as jIQuchqu’, but it’s
probably gibberish to others – sorry)


Apparently, Windows 10 supports pIqaD natively. I've been told this,
though I haven't confirmed it myself. However, I saw this tweet
earlier:
https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/572575416222818305/photo/1


He uses the pIqaD font found here: <http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnste/archive/2013/05/20/piqad-font-for-bing-s-klingon-translator.aspx>, which uses Everson's Unicode code points. Interestingly, it includes a web font. Without a corresponding input method editor, the font is of limited use. Has anybody written one?

I've got the latest Windows 10 preview build, but I don't know how he got pIqaD to appear in that Command Prompt window. There is no localization for Klingon. I suspect this was a developer's joke.

The font creator has more blog posts about Klingon on Windows here: <http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnste/archive/tags/klingon/>

-- 
SuStel
http://www.trimboli.name/



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