[Sw-l] A SignWriting symbol by any other name

[Carlos Cristian Libras]

Steve, the work you do will one day change an entire generation. I am very
grateful to be alive in the same historical period as you.

Em dom., 29 de out. de 2023 11:36 AM, Steve Slevinski <slevin at signpuddle.net>
escreveu:

> Hi SignWriting list,
>
> Today I published v1.6.0 of the @suton-signwriting/core package.  The new
> version includes support for the Symbol ID.
>
> Symbols of the International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA) 2010 have several
> names.  Consider the first symbol.
>
> ID of 1
> Symbol ID of 01-01-001-01-01-01
> Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW) key of S10000
> SignWriting in Unicode (SWU) of U+40001
>
> You can see the various conversions and transformations in the
> @sutton-signwriting/core documentation.
> https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/core/#convert
>
> Why so many names?
>
> The Symbol ID is the original name of the symbol.  It contains 6 degrees
> of information: category, group, base, variation, fill, and rotation.
>
> The ID is a 16-bit integer.  Useful for storing in a database.
>
> The Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW) name and the SignWriting in Unicode
> (SWU) name are used when writing signs as words.
>
> Regards,
> -Steve
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