Re: Encoding West African Adinkra sysmbols

[Philippe Verdy]

I read that there are similar sets of symbols in Polynesian/Melanesian
cultures. There are possibly others in native Amerindian cultures, often
related to religious features, nature.

These symbols look in fact very similar to the initial creation of our
modern alphabets we all know, just a step behing ideograms as those used in
Mayan, Han, Egyptian and proto-Indo-European scripts, or runes in Europe,
or today's very active creation of emojis and lots of icons and logograms
created everywhere, by the industry and by various standard bodies: they
encode more than just a letter or identifiable word, but instead a
concept/idea which could be "spelled" orally by various sentences in modern
languages. Their properties would be complex to design to to their complex
meaning/associations and usage rules.



2017-01-22 20:47 GMT+01:00 Hans Åberg :

>
> On 22 Jan 2017, at 18:21, Michael Everson  wrote:
>
> Are they used in plain text? How?
>
>
> On textiles and walls in a similar fashion as emoji, it seems [1]. Known
> since the beginning of the 19th century.
>
> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adinkra_symbols
>
>
>

Re: Encoding West African Adinkra sysmbols

[Hans Åberg]

> On 22 Jan 2017, at 18:21, Michael Everson  wrote:
> 
> Are they used in plain text? How?

On textiles and walls in a similar fashion as emoji, it seems [1]. Known since 
the beginning of the 19th century.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adinkra_symbols

Re: Encoding West African Adinkra sysmbols

[Philippe Verdy]

I think the book listed on the web site is a perfect example:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B59TIM/adinkrasymbol-20

If it locally has cultural meaning, it should be encoded for allowing
interchange also in encoded texts, rather than just artistic creations in
architecture, or handwritten books and displays.

That information site is interesting as it is currently collecting the
usages (including photos) and meanings.

2017-01-22 18:21 GMT+01:00 Michael Everson :

> Are they used in plain text? How?
>
> > On 21 Jan 2017, at 18:56, Kyekyeku Opoku-Pong <
> opokupongkyeky...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I hope this is the right forum to seek help.
> > I am looking for the possibility of encoding Adinkra symbols used
> extensively in Ghana and West Africa. There is information on Adinkra
> symbols and their meanings at: http://www.adinkra.org/htmls/
> adinkra_index.htm
> >
> > How do I go about the process of getting the symbols approved for
> Unicode.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Kyekyeku
>
>
>

Re: Encoding West African Adinkra sysmbols

[Michael Everson]

Are they used in plain text? How?

> On 21 Jan 2017, at 18:56, Kyekyeku Opoku-Pong  
> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I hope this is the right forum to seek help.
> I am looking for the possibility of encoding Adinkra symbols used extensively 
> in Ghana and West Africa. There is information on Adinkra symbols and their 
> meanings at: http://www.adinkra.org/htmls/adinkra_index.htm
> 
> How do I go about the process of getting the symbols approved for Unicode.
> 
> Thank you,
> Kyekyeku

Encoding West African Adinkra sysmbols

[Kyekyeku Opoku-Pong]

Hello,I hope this is the right forum to seek help.I am looking for the 
possibility of encoding Adinkra symbols used extensively in Ghana and West 
Africa. There is information on Adinkra symbols and their meanings at: 
http://www.adinkra.org/htmls/adinkra_index.htm
How do I go about the process of getting the symbols approved for Unicode.
Thank you,Kyekyeku