<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>December 10, 2008</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Steve!</div><div>This information is amazing. Thank you for this new work with Unicode...</div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to creating some new web pages linking to your new information...</div><div><br></div><div>I am behind, but hope to get to some web design shortly...</div><div><br></div><div>And Stefan, the great photos you shared with us will be posted soon as well...</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for all your great messages, everyone!</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>----------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 10, 2008, at 7:14 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi list,<br> <br> <br> 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> <br> <br> I encoded the ASL sentence for "Hello world." as 2 signs and 1 punctuation using 4 different forms.<br> <span><663.1.png></span><br> The size breakdown is very interesting.<br> -------------------------------------------------<br> 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> <br> <br> 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> <br> <br> Here's the contents of my first Unicode string for SignWriting in UTF-8:<br> -------------------------------------------------<br> 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> -------------------------------------------------<br> <br> 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> <br> <br> 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> <br> <br> Regards,<br> -Steve<br> </div> <br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br><a href="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br><br>List Archives and Help<br>http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/<br><br>Change Email Settings<br>http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>