[Sw-l] A SignWriting symbol by any other name

[Steve Slevinski]

Hi SignWriting list,

Today I published v1.6.0 of the @suton-signwriting/core package. The new 
version includes support for the Symbol ID.

Symbols of the International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA) 2010 have 
several names.  Consider the first symbol.

ID of 1
Symbol ID of 01-01-001-01-01-01
Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW) key of S10000
SignWriting in Unicode (SWU) of U+40001

You can see the various conversions and transformations in the 
@sutton-signwriting/core documentation.
https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/core/#convert

Why so many names?

The Symbol ID is the original name of the symbol.  It contains 6 degrees 
of information: category, group, base, variation, fill, and rotation.

The ID is a 16-bit integer.  Useful for storing in a database.

The Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW) name and the SignWriting in 
Unicode (SWU) name are used when writing signs as words.

Regards,
-Steve
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