Updated for UTC #156, this presentation discusses the Center for Sutton Movement Writing's proposal for the full script support of Sutton SignWriting in Unicode.
SignWriting in Unicode and rich text considerationsStephen Slevinski
Unicode is a widely accepted standard for encoding the various writing systems of the world. Sutton SignWriting is encoded with Formal SignWriting (FSW) which is plain text ASCII and equivalent to UTF-8.
In 2015, year the Unicode Technical Committee discussed SignWriting and the various data representations. Early August 2016, SignWriting will be discussed at UTC # 148, including a new proposal for Unicode 10.
Formal SignWriting is Plain Text. After the Formal SignWriting strings, rich text details can be add to customize the size and color of individual signs and symbols.
Background information about the International community of SignWriting users: their standards and projects.
Background information about the efforts to encode SignWriting in Unicode and the issues that need to be addressed.
SignWriting in Unicode (SWU) is an experimental encoding endorsed by the Center for Sutton Movement Writing. Signs are written as words using a character design that overwrites the Sutton SignWriting Block (U+1D800 - U+1D9FF) and uses Plane 4 for the Sutton SignWriting symbols.
SIGNWRITING SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATION 61: SignWriting in Unicode Next by Stephen E. Slevinski Jr
Unicode is a widely accepted standard for encoding the various writing systems of the world. Sutton SignWriting is encoded with Formal SignWriting (FSW) which is plain text ASCII and equivalent to UTF-8.
Last year the Unicode Technical Committee discussed SignWriting and the various data representations. Early August 2016, SignWriting will be discussed at UTC # 148, including a new proposal for Unicode 10.
Formal SignWriting is Plain Text. After the Formal SignWriting strings, rich text details can be add to customize the size and color of individual signs and symbols.
See: http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0061.html
The document describes the Sutton SignWriting Standard of 2017, which provides a stable standard for writing sign languages using a two-dimensional representation. It summarizes the history and principles of SignWriting, and outlines the current standards for Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW) and SignWriting in Unicode (SWU). The standard uses characters for naming signs and fonts for viewing signs rendered with spatial coordinates. It aims to be complete, universal, empowering and possible for all sign languages.
1. The document discusses SignWriting, a writing system for sign languages that is supported by the Center for Sutton Movement Writing.
2. SignWriting uses a grid-based system of glyphs and can be encoded in Unicode, with some sign languages encoded in Plane 15 and others in Plane 16.
3. The Center for Sutton Movement Writing aims to provide standardized, stable, and free specifications for encoding various sign languages in fonts and Unicode for wide accessibility across operating systems and devices.
SignMaker is a standards based editor that makes it possible to write signs in any sign language with the SignWriting script using the SignWriting 2010 Fonts. The symbol palette makes it possible to access all of the symbols of the ISWA 2010 in a structured hierarchy. The SignBox editor is used to structure the 2-dimensional sign images. The SignSpelling Sequence editor is used to create a sortable representation for a sign. View only dictionaries are available for reference. A user editable dictionary is available for creating a unique collection of signs. Searching with spoken language can use wild cards. Searching with sign language can use several techniques including exact symbols or general symbols, approximate symbol location in 2-dimensions, or a specific order in the SignSpelling Sequence. Preferences of coloring and grid options are available. Advanced customizations for the symbol palette, keyboarding options, user interface, and dictionary data is possible when the software is downloaded to a user's computer.
Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity software including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It was first announced in 1988 and contained those three applications. Over the years, Office applications have integrated shared features like a common spell checker. Word was initially developed in 1981 and released in 1983, becoming hugely popular with the release of Windows in 1990. Excel allows formatting cells based on conditions and charts provide a visual representation of worksheet data. Formulas in Excel can perform basic math operations like addition and subtraction as well as more complex functions like IF statements.
SignWriting in Unicode and rich text considerationsStephen Slevinski
Unicode is a widely accepted standard for encoding the various writing systems of the world. Sutton SignWriting is encoded with Formal SignWriting (FSW) which is plain text ASCII and equivalent to UTF-8.
In 2015, year the Unicode Technical Committee discussed SignWriting and the various data representations. Early August 2016, SignWriting will be discussed at UTC # 148, including a new proposal for Unicode 10.
Formal SignWriting is Plain Text. After the Formal SignWriting strings, rich text details can be add to customize the size and color of individual signs and symbols.
Background information about the International community of SignWriting users: their standards and projects.
Background information about the efforts to encode SignWriting in Unicode and the issues that need to be addressed.
SignWriting in Unicode (SWU) is an experimental encoding endorsed by the Center for Sutton Movement Writing. Signs are written as words using a character design that overwrites the Sutton SignWriting Block (U+1D800 - U+1D9FF) and uses Plane 4 for the Sutton SignWriting symbols.
SIGNWRITING SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATION 61: SignWriting in Unicode Next by Stephen E. Slevinski Jr
Unicode is a widely accepted standard for encoding the various writing systems of the world. Sutton SignWriting is encoded with Formal SignWriting (FSW) which is plain text ASCII and equivalent to UTF-8.
Last year the Unicode Technical Committee discussed SignWriting and the various data representations. Early August 2016, SignWriting will be discussed at UTC # 148, including a new proposal for Unicode 10.
Formal SignWriting is Plain Text. After the Formal SignWriting strings, rich text details can be add to customize the size and color of individual signs and symbols.
See: http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0061.html
The document describes the Sutton SignWriting Standard of 2017, which provides a stable standard for writing sign languages using a two-dimensional representation. It summarizes the history and principles of SignWriting, and outlines the current standards for Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW) and SignWriting in Unicode (SWU). The standard uses characters for naming signs and fonts for viewing signs rendered with spatial coordinates. It aims to be complete, universal, empowering and possible for all sign languages.
1. The document discusses SignWriting, a writing system for sign languages that is supported by the Center for Sutton Movement Writing.
2. SignWriting uses a grid-based system of glyphs and can be encoded in Unicode, with some sign languages encoded in Plane 15 and others in Plane 16.
3. The Center for Sutton Movement Writing aims to provide standardized, stable, and free specifications for encoding various sign languages in fonts and Unicode for wide accessibility across operating systems and devices.
SignMaker is a standards based editor that makes it possible to write signs in any sign language with the SignWriting script using the SignWriting 2010 Fonts. The symbol palette makes it possible to access all of the symbols of the ISWA 2010 in a structured hierarchy. The SignBox editor is used to structure the 2-dimensional sign images. The SignSpelling Sequence editor is used to create a sortable representation for a sign. View only dictionaries are available for reference. A user editable dictionary is available for creating a unique collection of signs. Searching with spoken language can use wild cards. Searching with sign language can use several techniques including exact symbols or general symbols, approximate symbol location in 2-dimensions, or a specific order in the SignSpelling Sequence. Preferences of coloring and grid options are available. Advanced customizations for the symbol palette, keyboarding options, user interface, and dictionary data is possible when the software is downloaded to a user's computer.
Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity software including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It was first announced in 1988 and contained those three applications. Over the years, Office applications have integrated shared features like a common spell checker. Word was initially developed in 1981 and released in 1983, becoming hugely popular with the release of Windows in 1990. Excel allows formatting cells based on conditions and charts provide a visual representation of worksheet data. Formulas in Excel can perform basic math operations like addition and subtraction as well as more complex functions like IF statements.
Xml For Dummies Chapter 6 Adding Character(S) To Xmlphanleson
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This is a very old presentation but if you gloss over the usage of VB6 there is plenty of value. I presented this to the VBUG Annual Conference in 2003.
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Character encodings map characters to binary representations using code points. Unicode is a widely adopted standard that assigns unique code points to characters. It is divided into planes with 65,536 code points each. UTF-8 is a common encoding format that uses variable-length octets to represent code points efficiently. While Unicode supports many languages, some criticize its complexity and that it does not include all possible scripts.
This document discusses character sets like ASCII and Unicode. ASCII maps English letters, numbers, and symbols to 7-bit binary codes and was the original standard, while Unicode is now more widely used as it supports over 110,000 characters from writing systems around the world, including ASCII as a subset for compatibility. An example at the end shows converting decimal values into ASCII text using an ASCII conversion table.
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Unicode is a standard for representing characters across different platforms and languages. It defines coding schemes like UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 to represent characters as binary values. UTF-16 uses 16-bit values for most characters but introduces surrogate pairs to represent some characters requiring two 16-bit values. UTF-32 uses 32-bit values for all characters. UTF-8 varies the number of bytes per character from 1 to 4 to optimize for English. Unicode aims to support all languages with a single encoding scheme.
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Moving forward with sign language projects in Formal SignWritingStephen Slevinski
Imagine a world in which every sign language user can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
Sign languages are human languages. Any topic that can be discussed in a spoken language can be discussed in a signed language. It's important to realize the benefits of a person being able to access information in their primary language. It's exciting to realize that sign language wikipedia projects are now possible with Sutton SignWriting.
The document describes a 4-day online SignWriting Symposium held from July 21-24, 2014 to celebrate 40 years of the SignWriting script. The symposium included over 50 presentations covering topics like SignWriting education, research, literature and software from participants in over 12 countries. Each day consisted of opening and closing sessions with moderators as well as multiple timed presentations in categories such as education, research, literature and software development related to SignWriting.
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This document summarizes the SignPuddle Standard for encoding SignWriting text. It discusses the background and benefits of the standard, and outlines its key elements. The standard provides a universal format for encoding sign languages. It allows for beautiful sign language images and real grammatical text. The standard uses the International SignWriting Alphabet 2010 and has been stable for over two years. The presenter encourages embracing, maintaining, and experimenting with the standard.
Digital collaboration with machine-readable sign language text in the SignWri...Stephen Slevinski
This document summarizes a presentation about digital collaboration using the SignWriting script. The presentation discusses Wikimedia's efforts to incorporate SignWriting, including labs and incubator projects. It also outlines the diversity of sign languages represented in SignPuddle Online and argues that sign languages are superior to spoken languages in some situations. The presentation covers the standards process, current state of SignWriting technology, and a vision for universal accessibility of written sign languages.
The document describes the SignWriting Stack, which allows use of SignWriting on different devices. It consists of layers including fonts, browsers, programming languages, and the SignWriting alphabet. These layers work together to enable SignWriting display and processing across operating systems and with various technologies like CSS, JavaScript, and SVG. The stack is open source and has been implemented in libraries and tools that allow SignWriting input and display.
1. The document discusses SignWriting in an ASCII world and describes how SignWriting can be represented using ASCII characters and strings.
2. Key concepts covered include the use of regular expressions to represent SignWriting symbols and structures, hexadecimal and numeric token patterns to identify symbols and their positions, and query strings which provide a concise way to search large databases of formal SignWriting notations.
3. Representing SignWriting formally with ASCII allows it to be searched and processed programmatically, enabling applications like searching large sign databases and text processing.
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1. O documento solicita a elaboração de um texto didático de 2 a 5 páginas sobre a crise atual na Síria para estudantes do ensino médio.
2. O texto deve abordar a localização da Síria, o início do conflito, o papel do Estado Islâmico, e o papel da Rússia, EUA, Turquia, Irã e Arábia Saudita no conflito.
3. Referências bibliográficas são fornecidas para pesquisa sobre o assunto.
The mobile industry has experienced tremendous growth over time. Early mobile phones had limited usage and functionality and were expensive, resulting in less revenue. Now, smartphones and tablets are overtaking PCs in usage, with continuous innovation and evolution in mobile technology. Most of the global population are mobile subscribers, and there are more mobile devices than people on Earth. Emerging technologies like wearables, mobile health, home automation, and augmented reality are pushing the industry forward.
Xml For Dummies Chapter 6 Adding Character(S) To Xmlphanleson
This document provides an overview of character encodings and how they are handled in XML. It discusses the limitations of 7-bit and 8-bit character encodings and how Unicode addresses these by supporting a much wider range of characters with 16-bit encoding. It also describes how characters maps to numeric codes in Unicode/ISO 10646 and how UTF encodings implement Unicode. Additional topics covered include common character sets, using Unicode characters, and resources for finding character entity information.
This is a very old presentation but if you gloss over the usage of VB6 there is plenty of value. I presented this to the VBUG Annual Conference in 2003.
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The document discusses character encoding standards like ASCII, UTF-8, and UTF-16. It explains that UTF-8 uses 1-4 bytes per character and has become the standard for XML and web content. The document raises questions about choosing the right encoding based on the characters, software, and browsers used.
Character encodings map characters to binary representations using code points. Unicode is a widely adopted standard that assigns unique code points to characters. It is divided into planes with 65,536 code points each. UTF-8 is a common encoding format that uses variable-length octets to represent code points efficiently. While Unicode supports many languages, some criticize its complexity and that it does not include all possible scripts.
This document discusses character sets like ASCII and Unicode. ASCII maps English letters, numbers, and symbols to 7-bit binary codes and was the original standard, while Unicode is now more widely used as it supports over 110,000 characters from writing systems around the world, including ASCII as a subset for compatibility. An example at the end shows converting decimal values into ASCII text using an ASCII conversion table.
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Unicode is a standard for representing characters across different platforms and languages. It defines coding schemes like UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 to represent characters as binary values. UTF-16 uses 16-bit values for most characters but introduces surrogate pairs to represent some characters requiring two 16-bit values. UTF-32 uses 32-bit values for all characters. UTF-8 varies the number of bytes per character from 1 to 4 to optimize for English. Unicode aims to support all languages with a single encoding scheme.
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Moving forward with sign language projects in Formal SignWritingStephen Slevinski
Imagine a world in which every sign language user can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
Sign languages are human languages. Any topic that can be discussed in a spoken language can be discussed in a signed language. It's important to realize the benefits of a person being able to access information in their primary language. It's exciting to realize that sign language wikipedia projects are now possible with Sutton SignWriting.
The document describes a 4-day online SignWriting Symposium held from July 21-24, 2014 to celebrate 40 years of the SignWriting script. The symposium included over 50 presentations covering topics like SignWriting education, research, literature and software from participants in over 12 countries. Each day consisted of opening and closing sessions with moderators as well as multiple timed presentations in categories such as education, research, literature and software development related to SignWriting.
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This document summarizes the SignPuddle Standard for encoding SignWriting text. It discusses the background and benefits of the standard, and outlines its key elements. The standard provides a universal format for encoding sign languages. It allows for beautiful sign language images and real grammatical text. The standard uses the International SignWriting Alphabet 2010 and has been stable for over two years. The presenter encourages embracing, maintaining, and experimenting with the standard.
Digital collaboration with machine-readable sign language text in the SignWri...Stephen Slevinski
This document summarizes a presentation about digital collaboration using the SignWriting script. The presentation discusses Wikimedia's efforts to incorporate SignWriting, including labs and incubator projects. It also outlines the diversity of sign languages represented in SignPuddle Online and argues that sign languages are superior to spoken languages in some situations. The presentation covers the standards process, current state of SignWriting technology, and a vision for universal accessibility of written sign languages.
The document describes the SignWriting Stack, which allows use of SignWriting on different devices. It consists of layers including fonts, browsers, programming languages, and the SignWriting alphabet. These layers work together to enable SignWriting display and processing across operating systems and with various technologies like CSS, JavaScript, and SVG. The stack is open source and has been implemented in libraries and tools that allow SignWriting input and display.
1. The document discusses SignWriting in an ASCII world and describes how SignWriting can be represented using ASCII characters and strings.
2. Key concepts covered include the use of regular expressions to represent SignWriting symbols and structures, hexadecimal and numeric token patterns to identify symbols and their positions, and query strings which provide a concise way to search large databases of formal SignWriting notations.
3. Representing SignWriting formally with ASCII allows it to be searched and processed programmatically, enabling applications like searching large sign databases and text processing.
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This document defines and provides examples of crowdsourcing, Storify, SEO, and hashtags. It explains that crowdsourcing focuses community power on a topic by harnessing community help. Examples include news sites gathering citizen reports on disasters. Storify aggregates social media by topic to create stories. SEO involves optimizing content for search engines using keywords. Hashtags make terms searchable on social media when prepended with #. The document advises choosing keywords based on search volume and following Google best practices.
1. O documento solicita a elaboração de um texto didático de 2 a 5 páginas sobre a crise atual na Síria para estudantes do ensino médio.
2. O texto deve abordar a localização da Síria, o início do conflito, o papel do Estado Islâmico, e o papel da Rússia, EUA, Turquia, Irã e Arábia Saudita no conflito.
3. Referências bibliográficas são fornecidas para pesquisa sobre o assunto.
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SIGNWRITING SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATION 61: "SignWriting in Unicode and Rich Text Considerations" by Stephen E. Slevinski Jr.
Unicode is a widely accepted standard for encoding the various writing systems of the world. Sutton SignWriting is encoded with Formal SignWriting (FSW) which is plain text ASCII and equivalent to UTF-8.
Last year the Unicode Technical Committee discussed SignWriting and the various data representations. Early August 2016, SignWriting will be discussed at UTC # 148, including a new proposal for Unicode 10.
Formal SignWriting is Plain Text. After the Formal SignWriting strings, rich text details can be add to customize the size and color of individual signs and symbols. SEE: http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0061.html
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SIGNWRITING SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATION 43: The SignWriting Stack 2015 by Stephen E Slevinski Jr
Visit Presentation Web Page: http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0043.html
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SignWriting in Unicode Next
1. SignWriting in
Unicode Next
Updated for UTC # 156 (Late 2018)
a Unicode Technical Committee meeting
by Stephen E Slevinski Jr
in association with the Center for Sutton Movement Writing
Version 4
2. The Big Umbrella of
the Center for Sutton Movement Writing
All sign languages
supported right now.
5+ years of stable and
free standards.
Many implementations
from separate groups.
Various hand writing styles.
Formal SignWriting (FSW) specification
3. “a worldwide character standard”
The Unicode Standard
Principles of the Unicode Standard
• Universal repertoire
• Logical order
• Efficiency
• Unification
• Characters, not glyphs
• Dynamic composition
• Semantics
• Stability
• Plain Text
• Convertibility
“used for representation of text for computer processing.”
http://unicode.org/standard/principles.html
“addresses only the encoding and semantics of text.”
“The Unicode Standard groups characters together by scripts in blocks.
A script is any system of related characters.”
4. 672 Unicode characters have been officially accepted
in the Sutton SignWriting block.
a complex script with a wide variety of processing available
Sutton SignWriting
17 additional control characters are proposed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting#Unicode
5. Sutton SignWriting Characters
since Unicode version 8
Description
Base Characters
Fill Modifiers 2 to 6
Rotation Modifiers 2 to 16
Unicode Range
U+1D800 to U+1DA8B
U+1DA9B to U+1DA9F
U+1DAA1 to U+1DAAF
672 characters already accepted.
6. The Center for Sutton Movement Writing
Proposal for Full Unicode
17 new characters for full script support.
Description
Fill Modifier 1
Rotation Modifier 1
Numbers 0 to 9
Sequence Marker (A)
SignBox Marker (B)
Left Lane Marker (L)
Middle Lane Marker (M)
Right Lane Marker (R)
Proposed Unicode
U+1DA9A
U+1DAA0
U+1DAB0 to U+1DAB9
U+1DABA
U+1DABB
U+1DABC
U+1DABD
U+1DABE
7. Fix Sorting and Simplify Processing
Under the triadic symbol definition, each symbol is written
as 3 Unicode characters of a base, a fill, and a rotation.
“The standard retains the order of characters in a source set where
possible. When the characters of a script are traditionally arranged in a
certain order—alphabetic order, for example—the Unicode Standard
arranges them in its codespace using the same order whenever possible.”
http://unicode.org/standard/principles.html
Fill Modifier 1
Rotation Modifier 1
U+1DA9A
U+1DAA0
Using a binary string comparison, efficient sorting is
available for all programming languages and applications.
8. Number Characters for Distance
Numbers 0 to 9 U+1DAB0 to U+1DAB9
Distance is fundamental to the meaning of a sign.
Formatting
CAT
C A T
C A T
Meaning
9. Sequence Marker
Supports multiple theories
Not formatting nor style
Meaning that can not be
derived from main string
Rendered in dictionary
A = U+1DABA
Marks the start of the
temporal prefix
Temporal Prefix
10. SignBox Marker
B = U+1DABB
Marks the start of the
SignBox cluster
Lane Markers
Left = U+1DABC
Middle = U+1DABD
Right = U+1DABE
Marks the lane of the
SignBox for vertical writing
11. Complex Script Support
with the Universal Shaping Engine
Full Script Encoding
MicroSoft Volt
TrueType Font Import
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Typography/volt.aspx
Using characters for
structural markers
and numbers
Utilizing the GPOS feature
with cartesian coordinates
12. Formal SignWriting
Regular Expressions
Query Strings
SVGUnicode
TrueType Font
10% to 50% reduction
15 to 50 times expansion
process million of characters per second
search results
15 times expansioncharacters for symbols
CSS
style text
JS
Isomorphic Unicode
6 KB zipped
16-bit
SignWriting Server
SVG Shapes
paths without Unicode text and fonts
Remote Website
Open Type Font
Targeting MS’s Universal Shaping Engine
Formatting
style text
13. Discussion Ideas
2-Color Fonts
SignWriting relies on a 2-color font. Currently, SignWriting mimics a 2-color
font by using 2 TrueType Fonts: one for the line and another for the filling. If
you have any experience with 2-color fonts, let’s discuss the possibilities.
Glyphs with 2 Types of Space
SignWriting creates signs as 2-dimensional arrangements of symbols. The
glyphs for the SignWriting symbols have 2 types of space: a positive space
and a negative space. The positive space is visible and reveals the line or
shape of the glyph. The negative space is set to a background color or made
transparent. When 2 symbols overlap, the symbols are placed in order on a 2-
dimensional canvas. The negative space of the top symbol will overwrite the
positive space of the symbol underneath. Current software uses a
background color for the negative space. MicroSoft has a solution for making
the negative space transparent and still overwriting the positive space of the
symbol underneath.
14. SignWriting Design, With Three
Examples and Their Representation
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15219-signwriting-design.pdf
15. SignWriting in
Unicode Next
by Stephen E Slevinski Jr
http://signpuddle.com
slevinski@signwriting.org
http://www.slideshare.net/StephenSlevinski/presentations