thanks for the replies I received today. I have updated the page:
http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example.html
For those of you that wanted to help, but couldn't think of a celebrity
in some country, you might look at the internet movie database. They
have a search of actors by birth country. (Although many of the entries
seem to be stars that are now long gone.)
For example, this does a search for actors born in Germany:
http://us.imdb.com/BornWhere?for=germany
You can edit it for other countries and send me your candidates to be
added to the list.
thanks
tex
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Compelling Unicode demo
> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 15:48:33 -0500
> From: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>
> Organization: the Progress Company
> To: Unicoders <unicode@unicode.org>
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to create a demo using Unicode that will have data that is more
> representative of a business application, so it will be more compelling
> than the Unicode examples I have seen so far.
>
> In looking at the current examples of Unicode data covering a wide
> variety of languages, they demonstrate being multilingual but not in a
> way important to most businesses, or they are a little silly or
> self-absorbed (about Unicode not about demonstrating a good usage).
>
> I am not trying to put down the existing examples, they are valuable for
> testing and other purposes.
>
> I would like to make a favorable impression on people with a slightly
> more real world example. For example, a database of customer names and
> addresses would be something most businesses require.
>
> So I would like to build a list of celebrity names, each in their native
> language.
> I think such a list would be useful to demonstrate a real world
> multinational requirement.
>
> So I would like your help to compile such a list, and then I will post
> it for all to use.
>
> Specifically, I would like to get a name of a well-known celebrity, and
> their country of origin, in Unicode, and the English transliterations.
>
> Native Celebrity Name, Native Country, English Name, English name of
> country
>
> By Celebrity I have in mind singers and movie stars. Please no
> politicians, government officials, or well-known criminals.
> I want to make sure none of the names have offensive associations...
>
> We can be flexible about both "celebrity" and "country", especially for
> the more ancient languages...
> The names should be recognizable, not necessarily to me, but to a native
> speaker.
>
> I think if we had such a list, we can more fully demonstrate the power
> of Unicode.
>
> You can send me the examples privately, please use the above subject
> heading.
> I won't have time to comment on people's examples, I'll just collate
> them and post them periodically.
>
> (I am open to suggestions for a better demo.)
> tex
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Tex Texin Director, International Business
> mailto:Texin@Progress.com Tel: +1-781-280-4271
> the Progress Company Fax: +1-781-280-4655
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the
> one I've never tried before."- -Mae West
-- ------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin Director, International Business mailto:Texin@Progress.com Tel: +1-781-280-4271 the Progress Company Fax: +1-781-280-4655 ------------------------------------------------------------- "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."- -Mae West
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