From: Johannes Bergerhausen (johannes@bergerhausen.com)
Date: Mon Oct 24 2005 - 15:58:44 CST
Am 20.10.2005 um 20:43 schrieb Edward H. Trager:
> Suppose that there existed a "UnicodeWorld" project that looked
> something like the aforementioned
> MathWorld. Such a site would be of primary interest to people who are
> very serious about languages,
> scripts, linguistics, font technologies, internationalization,
> localization, and so on. In other
> words, the people who read this list. As a result, it is almost
> certain that a high level of quality would
> dominate and the error-correction rate would be very rapid.
There isn't a perfect *UnicodeWorld* right now, but in May 2005, the
University of Applied Sciences in
Mainz, Germany, started www.decodeunicode.org
There is an average of 6,500 unique visitors per month (40% from the
USA) and in the first months,
we collected more than 2,500 contributions to more than 1,100
characters.
I think: always when there is a new media coming up, people of the old
media confuse old and new.
Television is *not* Cinema -- and an Online-Wiki is *not* the
Encyclopedia Britannica.
You can choose the media you want to look at.
To make things clear, the layout of the decode-website distinguishes
between the »official« data
from Unicode in the upper *white* part of the page and the wiki in the
lower, *coloured* part of the page.
Each contribution is reviewed (and perhaps changed) by a moderator.
Actually, there are one english
and two german moderators.
We are working on an update to 4.1 with 1,000 more glyphs in three
sizes.
Most contributions are from linguists and typographers. We would very
much appreciate if the
members of this list would more share there knowledge with 6,500
visitors per month.
If you have suggestions to improve the project, don't hesitate.
Best regards,
Johannes Bergerhausen
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four awards for www.decodeunicode.org:
http://www.100-beste-plakate.de/ (Best German/Austria/Swiss Posters
http://www.adc.de/ (Art Directors Club)
http://www.ifdesign.de/ (International Forum Design Award)
http://www.red-dot.de/ (»nominated for grand prix«)
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