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Hi list,<br>
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Unicode has been mentioned many times before, but never with a fully
qualified solution. My solution is called the Plane 3 Solution and is
fully implemented at the encoding level.<br>
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I encoded the ASL sentence for "Hello world." as 2 signs and 1
punctuation using 4 different forms.<br>
<img src="cid:part1.09050006.02060400@signpuddle.net" alt=""><br>
The size breakdown is very interesting.<br>
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The image uses 1,550 bytes.<br>
The XML uses 357 bytes.<br>
The compact form uses 84 bytes.<br>
Sign language data uses 42 bytes.<br>
UTF-8 uses 84 bytes.<br>
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You can see all 4 forms online:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.signpuddle.net/mediawiki/index.php/Hello_world">http://www.signpuddle.net/mediawiki/index.php/Hello_world</a><br>
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Here's the contents of my first Unicode string for SignWriting in UTF-8:<br>
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f0 80 82 80 f0 81 b3 a0 f0 8f a3 94 f0 8f a3 ac f0 88 9d 86 f0 8f a3 aa
f0 8f a3 be f0 80 82 80 f0 83 8b aa f0 8f a2 9e f0 8f a4 94 f0 83 8b a1
f0 8f a2 97 f0 8f a3 bb f0 85 bb 80 f0 8f a2 b1 f0 8f a4 81 f0 8b 8e b4
f0 8f a2 a9 f0 8f a3 a5 f0 8e b0 a0<br>
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The conversion between sign language data and Unicode will be easy to
program in low level programming languages such as C. I personally
prefer the compact form which is the same size as the Unicode data but
easy to handle in modern programming languages.<br>
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In 2009, I hope to begin work with an organization called OASIS to
review and finalize the open standards of SignWriting. You can read
about my other plans for 2009 if you're interested.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.signpuddle.net/mediawiki/index.php/Plan_for_2009">http://www.signpuddle.net/mediawiki/index.php/Plan_for_2009</a><br>
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Regards,<br>
-Steve<br>
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