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Valerie Sutton Date: Sat Jul 3, 1999 2:49 pm Subject: Re: SignWriting & Unicode | |
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In regards to Unicode.... One of the members of our SignWriting List is Michael Everson, from Dublin, Ireland. Michael works with Unicode, and I will be sending Michael a document of SignWriting symbols in the next few weeks, so that SignWriting can be placed into Unicode. It may take several years - but sooner or later it will happen. I know Michael is away on vacation now, so of course he is the expert on Unicode and Chinese, and I am just repeating what I understood - which is that Chinese is already successfully typed with Unicode right now - and I have spoken with some native Chinese speakers here in the USA who happen to be programmers, and they tell me they have typed Chinese with Unicode and that it works. So I am very impressed with that myself. And they also have a way to type heiroglyphics in Unicode I believe - so they have succeeded with developing keystrokes for typing writing systems that are not ASCII characters. Meanwhile, one of those Chinese-speaking programmers whom I told you about is named Julie Chang. Julie is donating her time to our organization, along with Dylan Doxey, to help design the Fingerspelling Fonts in SignWriting in TrueType in Fontographer, and they are almost done with the Fingerspelling USA font. And there are other limited TrueType fonts in SignWriting symbols done in other countries too - so by Fall I hope to have a series of TrueType fonts available to download for free from our web site. TrueType will make it possible to type fingerspelling in SW symbols in Microsoft Word - and possibly even in email messages, if everyone has a copy of the same fonts installed in their systems on their computers. 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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