Oops, meant to link to julia-i18n-j.svg <http://imgh.us/julia-i18n-j.svg> in the previous message, rather than twice to the -ju variant.
On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 2:26:08 PM UTC+1, Waldir Pimenta wrote: > > Here are the options with Arabic on top. I made two versions, one with the > "Ju" sound, and one with the "J" sound. Take a look at the source code for > the SVG files (julia-i18n-ju.svg <http://imgh.us/julia-i18n-ju.svg>, > julia-i18n-j.svg > <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fimgh.us%2Fjulia-i18n-ju.svg&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEYFUnEU4nyFe3WApYdLGOLtfwNUw>) > > for more details :) > > Let me know which one you like best. > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k4UIPOAFQGA/V_T_FEj5WjI/AAAAAAAB5bc/_MnEDFuJCWAtTt_9GpjpkZmUq18PdCOsACLcB/s1600/Screenshot%2B2016-10-05%2B14.20.15.png> > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OpEpz7S-Dnc/V_T_Qw1EuFI/AAAAAAAB5bg/1bXbUpoz0P0GjJkvCiQiJwW8PIWA5QPvQCLcB/s1600/Screenshot%2B2016-10-05%2B14.20.32.png> > > On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 11:42:03 AM UTC+1, Waldir Pimenta wrote: >> >> Thanks for all the feedback! I think it's fair to say most people are >> pending towards Arabic characters in the top circle. I am considering >> keeping the consonant-vowel pair جو >> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88> there, since the Indic जू >> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%82> is ja+u as well, and >> the Chinese 朱 <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9C%B1> also includes >> the "u" sound -- so this would retain the symmetry. I'll post the updated >> proposal soon. >> >> On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 9:56:56 AM UTC+1, Sébastien Celles wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Nice logo but I don't like "J" on top which sound a bit >>> "occidental-centred". >>> Most Julia code use latin characters... so maybe for i18n we could avoid >>> latin characters >>> So I'd remove "J" in this logo >>> I would put arabic character (ج or جو) into green circle >>> keep 朱 in the red circle >>> and an indic character into the purple circle because there's an active >>> Julia community in India >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Le mercredi 5 octobre 2016 05:15:00 UTC+2, Islam Badreldin a écrit : >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> +1 for the letters 'جو' in the green circle. (Yes, these are two >>>> letters, a consonant and a vowel!) >>>> >>>> Another option is to only use the first single letter 'ج', or its >>>> modern variation 'چ', which would be the equivalent of 'J' in Arabic. >>>> Personally, I think it'd look nicer too. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Islam >>>> >>>> PS: I'm a native Arabic speaker, and I'm actively using Julia :) I hope >>>> the Arabic letters in this email display correctly on your system >>>> _____________________________ >>>> From: Waldir Pimenta <waldir....@gmail.com> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2016 3:58 AM >>>> Subject: Re: [julia-users] Re: Julia-i18n logo proposal >>>> To: julia-users <julia...@googlegroups.com> >>>> >>>> >>>> That's an interesting idea. And Arabic tends to be associated with the >>>> color green (well, Islam moreso >>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_in_Islam>, but the correlation is >>>> pretty high nevertheless), so we'd also get a nice pairing of >>>> character-color as with the Chinese one :) >>>> >>>> Looking forward to hear what other folks think. >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 5:49:06 AM UTC+1, David P. Sanders wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Or just remove the J and put the three characters from the other >>>>> scripts? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>
