From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Jan 15 2010 - 04:04:21 CST
You are 76 days early, it seems.
On 15 Jan 2010, at 08:04, William_J_G Overington wrote:
> I have written a poem using some of the localizable sentences that I
> used in my experiments last year.
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> It is winter.
> The colour is white.
> It is spring.
> The colour is green.
> The colour is yellow.
> It is summer.
> The colour is green.
> The colour is yellow.
> The colour is red.
> It is autumn.
> The colour is yellow.
> The colour is brown.
> It is winter.
> It is cloudy.
> The colour is grey.
> It is snowing.
> The colour is white.
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> The poem uses twelve of the localizable sentences, some used more
> than once.
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> The whole poem can be expressed using seventeen private use area
> characters.
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> There are fonts containing language-independent glyphs in the
> following thread.
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> http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2672
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> Readers are invited to try creative writing using the localizable
> sentences thus far defined.
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> Readers are invited to suggest more localizable sentences.
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> Maybe one day a pdf could contain regular Unicode codes expressing
> localizable sentences and a version of Adobe Reader will
> automatically localize into the selected local language using an
> external file as the dictionary for the conversion from localizable
> sentences to sentences expressed in the chosen local language.
>
> William Overington
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> 15 January 2010
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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