[Wikipedia-l] sign.wikepedia.org?

Mark Williamson node.ue at gmail.com
Sun Feb 6 20:58:51 UTC 2005


Hi Pablo,

Its encoding would most likely be like the current Unicode encoding of
Hangul, except probably quite a bit more complex.

Mark

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:39:15 +0100, Pablo Saratxaga
<pablo at mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
> Kaixo!
> 
> On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:31:04AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> 
> > It is possible to write sign languages, but SignWriting involves
> > two-dimensional placement of characters in various orientations, which is not
> > easy to encode as a character stream.
> 
> How complex is that space placement?
> If there is only a handful of possible placemens, then it should be
> quite easy to encode by giving a character codepoint to any of
> those places.
> 
> --
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