On 31/05/13 20:37, Asmus Freytag (w) wrote:
I think that research that does precisely this kind of task of correlating
symbol repertoires against each other is extremely valuable in its own right.
Additional research that documents the usage of these symbols -- in computing
environments -- would also be useful.
Reliable facts on users and the tasks in which they use particular symbols
(represented in filed and data) would be a better basis to argue about possible
encodings than just the existence of symbols or whether they are highly
recognizable when seen on signage.
Having said that, documenting the details of ongoing efforts at understanding
symbols by posting each small finding on this list is probably inappropriate.
That kind of effort belongs in a research project aimed at symbols.
A./
Thanks! I agree that a mailing list is a very poor venue for this -- I
just wanted to demonstrate that the repertoire of public information
symbols was quite coherent, and very amenable to unification, instead of
being a random grab-bag of pictograms with no defined boundaries -- and
then I got carried away.
ISO has its TC 145 committee to talk about exactly this, and no doubt
they will have a lot of this sewn up already, but it's not really a
public forum, and their documents are not freely available.
Is there an alternative forum that could be used to develop something in
a crowdsourced, collaborative way that could later be refined to
generate a more formal document such as a Unicode encoding proposal?
Something as simple as a wiki would work fine in the short term...
Neil
