[Sw-l] SignWriting in Unicode 8 documentation on Wikipedia

[Stephen E Slevinski Jr]

Hi SignWriting List,

I shared this information with Valerie this morning and she asked that I 
share it with the list.

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.

On the main SignWriting article, the Unicode section has been updated.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting#SignWriting_in_Unicode

/"SignWriting is the first writing system for sign languages to be 
included in the //Unicode Standard 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode>//. 672 characters were added in 
the //Sutton SignWriting 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_SignWriting_%28Unicode_block%29>//block 
in Unicode version 8.0 released in June 2015. This set of characters is 
based on SignWriting's standardized symbol set//^[8] 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting#cite_note-8> //and defined 
character encoding model.//^[9] 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting#cite_note-9> //^[5] 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting#cite_note-EversonUnicode-5> //"/


There is a new page about the Sutton SignWriting Unicode block of code 
points.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_SignWriting_%28Unicode_block%29



I added an info box to the page above.




I also added a SignWriting Section to the Help section on the 
Multilingual Support page.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support#Sutton_SignWriting


If you have the TrueType fonts installed on your system, the above table 
will look like this:



There are other scattered updates throughout the English Wikipedia. More 
updates are needed.  It is a marvelous work in progress.

Regards,
-Steve

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