Personally I like the "j"-sound more for some reason...
On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 3:29:00 PM UTC+2, Waldir Pimenta wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2016 3:58 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: [julia-users] Re: Julia-i18n logo proposal >>>>> To: julia-users <[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 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? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>
