[Sw-l] A review of Formal SignWriting

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
July 23, 2019

This is great news, Steve! Congratulations on all you have accomplished for SignWriting over the years, giving us so many tools for writing SignWriting on computers and other technologies. The encoding of the International SignWriting Alphabet is a big part of your accomplishments. Of course it is good that SignWriting is in Unicode, but it is also too bad that it has not been improved within the Unicode world yet. But because of your developments of FSW and SWU (SignWriting Unicode), SignWriting is actually working within Unicode for us, on Plane 4. Thank you Steve for developing SWU.

So now I am looking for funding to provide the funds to help Steve develop the 2-D Font for SignWriting that we all so badly need. It will make it possible to write SignWriting more broadly on Google and on the internet.

Does anyone know of grants available for software development? I can try to write the grants, if I know there is a chance we could be noticed ...

Val ;-)

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> On Jul 23, 2019, at 8:18 AM, Stephen Slevinski <slevin at SIGNPUDDLE.NET> wrote:
> 
> Hi SignWriting list,
> 
> Recently I found an interesting blog on ASL and SignWriting.  They reviewed the Formal SignWriting standard document.  They rated the standard a 9 out of 10.
> * https://scriblingsonasl.wordpress.com/2019/07/15/review-of-formal-signwriting/ <https://scriblingsonasl.wordpress.com/2019/07/15/review-of-formal-signwriting/>
> 
> I'll share my response later, but I'm very interested in anyone else's review of Formal SignWriting or reactions to the review.
> 
> 
> 
> "draft-slevinski-formal-signwriting" is the name of the document that I submit to the IETF every 6 months.  It defines the core components of SignWriting text as usable data.  Formal SignWriting documents an international standard that we can all freely use and share.
> 
> Over the past 15 years, I changed the data formats several times.  Each update required a conversion routine for the data and an internal rewrite of some of the code.
> 
> Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW) was set in 2012.  It has been stable since release and is still valuable to use.
> SignWriting in Unicode (SWU) was set in 2017.  It has been stable since release and is very valuable to use.  It is not part of the Unicode standard, but overwrites Unicode characters and poaches  Plane 4 for Sutton SignWriting.
> 
> Unicode remains an issue till this day.  I attended several Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) meetings and submitted several document, but I never made any progress.  We have different ideas and concerns.
> 
> Regards,
> -Steve
> https://signpuddle.org <https://signpuddle.org/>
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