Re: [unicode] Re: (TC304.2313) AND/OR: antediluvian views

2000-06-24 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 10:35 AM 6/14/00 -0800, you wrote: At 09:57 AM 06/13/2000 -0800, Otto Stolz wrote: Off-topic Am 2000-06-13 um 17:49 h hat Alain geschrieben: [Having pictograms everywhere] is much lighter than having to provide indications, say, in 12 languages (most common example: toilets). Watch out

Re: [unicode] Re: (TC304.2313) AND/OR: antediluvian views

2000-06-14 Thread mary ink
Pictograms are problematic because they are often culturally based. How about using the ideographs we already have, ie the Unified Han Characters? Totally culturally-BASED, I suppose, but knowing fewer than 20 of them I was nonetheless able to locate the ladies room, find the exit, and figure

Re: [unicode] Re: (TC304.2313) AND/OR: antediluvian views

2000-06-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 09:57 AM 06/13/2000 -0800, Otto Stolz wrote: Off-topic Am 2000-06-13 um 17:49 h hat Alain geschrieben: [Having pictograms everywhere] is much lighter than having to provide indications, say, in 12 languages (most common example: toilets). Watch out when you go to the bathroom in

Re: [unicode] Re: (TC304.2313) AND/OR: antediluvian views

2000-06-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 07:29 AM 06/13/2000 -0800, Alain wrote: With more than 2 languages, precedence becomes problematic. As an example of language precedence, an actual case: at the Toronto Airport Radisson Suite Hotels, my prefered hotel in Toronto (so far! but it could change...), they recently introduced a