RE: About that alphabetician...

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 11:33:20 EDT

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    At 07:11 AM 9/25/2003, Hart, Edwin F. wrote:

    >I like to say, "Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 describe a single standard for
    >representing the world's characters in computers as a series of numbers
    >(zeros and ones)."

    Unicode is an encoding standard for text on computers that allows documents
    in any script and language to be entered, stored, edited and exchanged.

    I think it is best to relate the description to what the layman does: he
    types things, and he edits them and he sends them to other laymen. The 'big
    font' thing is a really bad idea because it is completely inaccurate:
    that's not informing the layman in terms he understands, that's misleading
    him. I also think it is a good idea to include the word 'encoding', because
    if the rest of one's description is simple it can be a useful way to plant
    new terminology in someone's head.

    I have not seen the article yet -- too little time with ATypI kicking off
    this evening --, but I'm sure Michael did a grand job otherwise.

    John Hudson

    Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
    Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com

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