Good point about resolution. I just realized an even bigger problem- steganography. Embedding data in pictures. By changing the colors associated with a character string, someone could spell out a completely different message. My "Hello world" could be changed to "Bite me". It might not even be intentional, could be just a bad color gun in a monitor.
Although, it would certainly be an aid to translation, (one set of message strings fits all!) there is too much of a security risk. Never mind. ;-) (Maybe the heat is getting to me.) Rick McGowan wrote: > > Tex wrote: > > > Lends a whole new meaning to unification! The single character encoding, > > UniCharacter!. Just color what you need. > > Yeah! I like Tex's suggestion. It would eliminate all kinds of problems. > We wouldn't have to worry about encoding anything ever again, because users > would have all the tools they need to express whatever they wanted just by > coloring in the bits! And nobody would have any problems decoding it! > > The only question that remains is, "how much resolution is enough"? I > think if we have 512x512 bytes for 256x256 resolution at 16-bits/pixel for > color, that ought to be enough resolution to satisfy anyone. So each > character would only require 2,097,152 bits. With all the fancy compression > schemes we could cook up, that shouldn't pose any difficulty at all. And > it really ought to appeal to the RAM manufacturers... > > Speaking of compression schemes, we could pick a space of say 32 bits and > allow people to register the characters they like by NUMBER (!), and we > could keep a whole technical committee engrossed for decades in deciding > which proposed pictures were really the same and thus have "already been > registered", and numbering things, then we could transmit information > compactly by using the catalog numbers instead of the pictures. That might > be helpful to users, I'm not sure... > > Rick -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCraft http://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -------------------------------------------------------------
