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Note: This functionality is presently missing. See: How to add named characters to Mathematica 10?

Mathematica apparently supports the Klingon alphabet:

MemberQ[$CharacterEncodings, "Klingon"]

True

UnicodeFontMapping.tr excerpt:

0xF8D0 N 15 0x41 # \[KlingonA] 0xF8D1 N 15 0x42 # \[KlingonB] 0xF8D2 N 15 0x43 # \[KlingonCH] 0xF8D3 N 15 0x44 # \[KlingonD] 0xF8D4 N 15 0x45 # \[KlingonE] 0xF8D5 N 15 0x47 # \[KlingonGH] 0xF8D6 N 15 0x48 # \[KlingonH] 0xF8D7 N 15 0x49 # \[KlingonI] 0xF8D8 N 15 0x4a # \[KlingonJ] 0xF8D9 N 15 0x4c # \[KlingonL] 0xF8DA N 15 0x4d # \[KlingonM] 0xF8DB N 15 0x4e # \[KlingonN] 0xF8DC N 15 0x46 # \[KlingonNG] 0xF8DD N 15 0x4f # \[KlingonO] 0xF8DE N 15 0x50 # \[KlingonP] 0xF8DF N 15 0x4b # \[KlingonQ] 0xF8E0 N 15 0x51 # \[KlingonQH] 0xF8E1 N 15 0x52 # \[KlingonR] 0xF8E2 N 15 0x53 # \[KlingonS] 0xF8E3 N 15 0x54 # \[KlingonT] 0xF8E4 N 15 0x58 # \[KlingonTLH] 0xF8E5 N 15 0x55 # \[KlingonU] 0xF8E6 N 15 0x56 # \[KlingonV] 0xF8E7 N 15 0x57 # \[KlingonW] 0xF8E8 N 15 0x59 # \[KlingonY] 0xF8E9 N 15 0x27 # \[KlingonGlottalStop] 0xF8F0 N 15 0x29 # \[Klingon0] 0xF8F1 N 15 0x21 # \[Klingon1] 0xF8F2 N 15 0x40 # \[Klingon2] 0xF8F3 N 15 0x23 # \[Klingon3] 0xF8F4 N 15 0x34 # \[Klingon4] 0xF8F5 N 15 0x25 # \[Klingon5] 0xF8F6 N 15 0x5e # \[Klingon6] 0xF8F7 N 15 0x26 # \[Klingon7] 0xF8F8 N 15 0x2a # \[Klingon8] 0xF8F9 N 15 0x28 # \[Klingon9] 0xF8FF N 15 0x5a # \[KlingonEmpire]

What font and settings do I need to make these visible?

Klingon alphabet:
Klingon alphabet

Klingon numerals:
Klingon numerals

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  • $\begingroup$ What OS are you using? $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 4, 2012 at 2:39
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    $\begingroup$ "Note Mathematica not only supports a wide variety of international languages, but it also supports Klingon making it, I believe, the first intergalactic software program." --- from this review of Mma 4.0 in 1999! $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 4, 2012 at 2:48
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    $\begingroup$ You are aiming at Klingon Boggle, right? $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 5, 2012 at 11:18
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    $\begingroup$ I, for one, welcome our new Klingon overlords ;-) $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 5, 2012 at 11:24
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    $\begingroup$ The same way that you write a letter Щ or ش in the Latin alphabet... $\endgroup$ Commented Sep 17, 2012 at 20:46

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I found the solution. Mathematica is set up to use the font KLIpIqaDmey. The tip-off is in the UnicodeFontMapping.tr file referenced in the question. The header reads:

@@resource UnicodeFontMapping Mathematica: Times Automatic Mathematica: (Times Courier) Automatic Mathematica: (Mathematica1 Mathematica1Mono) Automatic Mathematica: (Mathematica2 Mathematica2Mono) Automatic Mathematica: (Mathematica3 Mathematica3Mono) Automatic Mathematica: (Mathematica4 Mathematica4Mono) Automatic Mathematica: (Mathematica5 Mathematica5Mono) Automatic Mathematica: (Mathematica6 Mathematica6Mono) Automatic Mathematica: (Mathematica7 Mathematica7Mono) Automatic Mathematica: MathematicaInternal Automatic Mathematica: Zapf_Dingbats Automatic Mathematica: (DefaultKanjiFont DefaultMonoKanjiFont) Japanese Mathematica: (DefaultKoreanFont DefaultMonoKoreanFont) Korean Mathematica: (DefaultChineseSimplifiedFont DefaultMonoChineseSimplifiedFont) ChineseSimplified Mathematica: (DefaultChineseTraditionalFont DefaultMonoChineseTraditionalFont) ChineseTraditional Mathematica: KLIpIqaDmey Klingon # 0 = special: dynamically assigned # 1 = base font # 2 = Mathematica1: Greek letters and common operators # 3 = Mathematica2: Radicals, brackets, integrals, arrows # 4 = Mathematica3: Operators and shapes # 5 = Mathematica4: Arrows, vectors, over/under brackets, keys, icons # 6 = Mathematica5: the archaic alphabets, Script # 7 = Mathematica6: Gothic # 8 = Mathematica7: DoubleStruck # 9 = FE Internal # 10 = Zapf Dingbats # 11 = Kanji (if present) # 12 = Korean (if present) # 13 = Chinese Simplified (if present) # 14 = Chinese Traditional (if present) # 15 = Klingon (if present)

At first glance I overlooked the significance of the Mathematica: lines, but then I realized their relation to 0 - 15 below.

Image captured from Mathematica with the font installed:

Mathematica graphics

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The way to get those characters is to type their long name in the form specified in the right hand column of that table. I don't know what it's supposed to look like, but to me they look just like a smaller variant of the latin alphabet.

In[39]:= ToCharacterCode["\[KlingonA]\[KlingonB]\[KlingonCH]\ \[KlingonD]\[KlingonGlottalStop]\[Klingon4]\[KlingonEmpire]"] Out[39]= {63696, 63697, 63698, 63699, 63721, 63732, 63743}
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    $\begingroup$ I'm sorry but I have to downvote this. Yes that is the entry form, but I think it's quite apparent that the glyphs are not correct. :-/ $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 4, 2012 at 5:19
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    $\begingroup$ It's only apparent if one knows Klingon... :) $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 4, 2012 at 5:21
  • $\begingroup$ Like I said, I am sorry. I stress that I am downvoting the answer, not the answerer. For what it's worth I found a solution. See below. $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 4, 2012 at 5:30
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    $\begingroup$ All the Klingons I know agree that this answer is not wrong. $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 3, 2012 at 5:57

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