[vox-tech] Generating the Klingon (tlh) locale?

[Bryan Richter]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:23:06AM -0700, Ken Bloom wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:36:56AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> > So, I discovered Melissa has a copy of The Klingon Dictionary, so I
> > translated some of the most basic strings in Tux Paint to romanized
> > Klingon.  (e.g., everyone's favorite: "Qapla'")
> > 
> > I discovered that there's even an 'official' locale for Klingon, "tlh"
> > (it used to be "i-klingon", but that's been deprecated).
> > (FYI, "tlh" is for "tlhIngan HoL", which means "Klingon language")
> > 
> > Anyway, unfortunately, Debian's Testing branch seems to be sorely lacking
> > this locale, so 'gettext()' fails to let Tux Paint 'switch' to it.  (Do'Ha')
> > 
> > I was wondering if anyone here's familiar enough with locale creation to
> > help me generate it, because jIHtaHbogh naDev vISovbe' (I'm lost!)  ;^)
> > 
> > Thank you  (SoH tlho'),
> 
> dpkg -L locales, and you'll see that it's not there.
> File a bug report against the locales package. Write the bug report in
> your best Klingon.
> 

... and CC to this list. :)

-Bryan