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Title : The SignPuddle Standard for SignWriting Text
Author : Stephen E Slevinski
Filename : draft-slevinski-signwriting-text-03.txt
Pages : 38
Date : 2014-05-08
Abstract:
For concreteness, because the universal character set is not yet
universal, and because an international standard for the internet
community should be documented and stable, this I-D has been released
with the intention of producing an RFC to document the character use
and naming conventions of the SignWriting community on the Internet.
The SignWriting Script is an international standard for writing sign
languages by hand or with computers. From education to research,
from entertainment to religion, SignWriting has proven useful because
people are using it to write signed languages. The SignWriting
Script has two major families: Block Printing for the reader and
Handwriting for the writer.
The SignWriting Text encoding model defines the structures of
SignWriting Block Printing. The plain-text mathematical names are
explained with tokens and regular expressions patterns. The visual
image is supported with SVG and PNG generated by a SignWriting Icon
Server. An experimental TrueType Font is available.
Formal SignWriting strings define a lite ASCII markup to name each
sign logogram. The text is defined with regular expressions. The
included query language defines several productive searching
possibilities. The transformation from query language to regular
expression is defined.
For Unicode, the current use of the Private Use Area font characters
is documented. A character proposal for plane 1 is included that is
isomorphic with the characters that are currently used by the
community.
Three appendices discuss additional topics to the standard. The
first discusses the Modern SignWriting theory and example document,
stable since January 12, 2012. The second discusses the symbol
encoding of the International SignWriting Alphabet 2010. The third
discusses the SignPuddle Standards: licences, infrastructure, and
compatibility.
This memo concretely defines a conceptual character encoding map for
the Internet community. It is published for reference, examination,
implementation, and evaluation. Distribution of this memo is
unlimited.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-slevinski-signwriting-text/
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