I am sorry, but this doesn’t look like internationalization. Rather it
seems like another attempt by the British to force their culture upon
the rest of the world. The richness of world-wide naming conventions for
people is simply ignored, Putin Vladimir Vladimirovič won’t be able to
use his full name (let alone in the order required), and this will lead
to World War III.
William J. G. Overington, please admit that others know so much more
about internationalization than you do, and stop these imperialist
off-topic activities.
Charlie Ruland ☘
William_J_G Overington a écrit:
Glyphs designed for the internationalization of the web-based on-line shops of
museums and art galleries
Imagine please if museum and art gallery websites each were to have an
international webpage in its on-line shop.
If there were on the webpage colourful symbols, one each for Surname, Forename,
Card number and so on and the end-user could display text in his or her own
language by displaying the appropriate read-out label next to each symbol, thus
localizing the web page, then that could be very helpful.
I have produced designs for nine symbols. There are two glyphs for each symbol,
one colourful and one monochrome. The symbols are octagonal, using not quite a
regular octagon. In the monochrome glyphs there is a border around the edge,
yet in the colourful glyphs there is no border. The colourful glyphs are
displayed in blue and orange, the idea being that the effect to the viewer is
of blue upon an orange background.
The designs are influenced by heraldry to some extent.
This is because I consider Surname to be the most important, so I used a
heraldic chief.
Then for Forename I used a pale as Forename is different from Surname yet
accompanies to Surname to form a name.
A bar is used for Address.
Name as on card may be different from Forename concatenated with a space and
Surname, due to use of Mr Mrs Miss Ms etc and initials, hence the reason for
the design not being a union of a chief and one pale.
Two bars are used for Card number.
Card start date and Card expiry date seemed liked brackets, so that inspired
the designs.
Card security code is just a design so as to be different from the other
designs yet not use any diagonal shapes.
Delivery address is included to allow for the possibility of sending a gift
directly to someone who lives at another address.
I am hoping to attach images showing the designs to other posts in this thread.
William Overington
21 April 2014
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