<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">SignWriting List</div><div class="">June 19, 2015</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you, Steve, for informing us with these links and explanations…It is a good summary of the new developments surrounding the new Unicode version 8, which includes the SignWriting script.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As Steve mentions below, there is still much development in the future, but the SignWriting TrueType Fonts are a good step forward to making SignWriting in Unicode useful -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you to everyone who worked on the issues of SignWriting in Unicode -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:11 PM, Stephen E Slevinski Jr <<a href="mailto:slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET" class="">slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET</a>> wrote:</div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div class="moz-cite-prefix" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hi SignWriting List,<br class=""><br class="">I shared this information with Valerie this morning and she asked that I share it with the list.<br class=""><br class="">Unicode 8 is soon to be released, and I noticed that some editors on Wikipedia are starting to update the appropriate pages and create new one.<br class=""><br class="">On the main SignWriting article, the Unicode section has been updated.<br class=""></div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">* </span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting#SignWriting_in_Unicode" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting#SignWriting_in_Unicode</a><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"SignWriting is the first writing system for sign languages to be included in the </i><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode" class="">Unicode Standard</a></i><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">. 672 characters were added in the </i><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_SignWriting_%28Unicode_block%29" title="Sutton SignWriting (Unicode block)" class="">Sutton SignWriting</a></i><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> block in Unicode version 8.0 released in June 2015. This set of characters is based on SignWriting's standardized symbol set</i><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting#cite_note-8" class="">[8]</a></sup></i><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> and defined character encoding model.</i><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting#cite_note-9" class="">[9]</a></sup></i><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><sup id="cite_ref-EversonUnicode_5-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting#cite_note-EversonUnicode-5" class="">[5]</a></sup></i><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"</i><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">There is a new page about the Sutton SignWriting Unicode block of code points. </span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">* </span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_SignWriting_%28Unicode_block%29" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_SignWriting_%28Unicode_block%29</a><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><img style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" apple-inline="yes" id="A66BF048-1EF7-4091-B1CB-9DB03B692E0C" height="101" width="438" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:part6.02030606.00050502@signpuddle.net" class=""><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I added an info box to the page above.</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><img style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" apple-inline="yes" id="33066DBF-0425-497C-8690-55AF960FC9F0" height="97" width="278" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:part7.06080608.09080305@signpuddle.net" class=""><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I also added a SignWriting Section to the Help section on the Multilingual Support page.</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">* </span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support#Sutton_SignWriting" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support#Sutton_SignWriting</a><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><blockquote class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="8BE7A457-FBF7-4632-9586-054CC402398D" height="276" width="467" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:part8.02020300.06020001@signpuddle.net" class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">If you have the TrueType fonts installed on your system, the above table will look like this:</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><blockquote class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="1E49684A-438E-446E-A3F2-EFA2535E9A09" height="108" width="288" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:part9.09060004.03020107@signpuddle.net" class=""><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">There are other scattered updates throughout the English Wikipedia. More updates are needed. It is a marvelous work in progress. </span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Regards,</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">-Steve</span></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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