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Valerie Sutton Date: Tue Jun 1, 1999 2:33 pm Subject: Re: New SignWriter Features? | |
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Wayne Smith wrote: > 8. Obviously a major need for SW here in Taiwan would be the necessity >of giving signs name in Chinese characters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ June 1, 1999 Hi Wayne - While I am writing this message, there are three baby wild rabbits outside my window eating weeds! I live on a canyon, about three miles from the ocean - the wildlife is wonderful! In regards to typing Chinese and Japanese - of course I know that people in Taiwan, China and Japan want to type Chinese or Japanese along with SignWriting. That is understood. The only problem is technology. Developing methods for typing Chinese and Japanese has been a great deal of work for hundreds of programmers over decades. The 9 European spoken languages already supported in SignWriter 4.3 are easier because they use the Roman alphabet. When it comes to other scripts, including Arabic, Chinese and Japanese, we will have to "hook into" other existing software for those writing systems. That is only practical. So it is just a matter of time. I doubt if we can do this in our first beta test version of SignWriter 5.0. I will feel lucky if we just have a working program for the 9 European languages by the Fall - just that alone is a huge job. At the moment, SignWriter 5.0 can't even print - so the programmer has a big job ahead. But in time it will happen - because I want it to! That means that later there will be a SignWriter 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 etc...it will slowly evolve as time and funding permits. Just want you to know that I am with you in spirit - Thanks for the great input - Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org The DAC, Deaf Action Committee for SW Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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