On 15 Jun 2010, at 00:36, Stephen Slevinski wrote:
I believe the script is stabilized. In 2004, we were using the
International MovementWriting Alphabet. We learned a lot in 3 years
of use. In 2008, we did a major refactoring of the symbol set to
focus on sign language only. We've happily used the 2008 symbol set
for 2 years. About a month ago, we discussed several small
issues. We decided for one last minimal refactor before
standardization. That refactor has been completed as the
International SignWriting Alphabet 2010.
I will be very happy if we are able to encode the symbol set in
Unicode. Encoding the characters needed for the script layout would
be nice, but one step at a time.
You might encode the layout characters as well, if this set is stable.
However, they should not be encoded on the Unicode abstract character
level, and not on the binary level. The binary level one gets by
applying UTF-8 etc onto the Unicode character numbers.
So here, you may encode new layout characters. But if there are things
like numbers needed for the layout description, then other Unicode
characters must be used. Then valid SignWriting sequences will be a
(small) computer language using Unicode characters.
Hans
