Re: non really unicode- Need your help to collect LC_STOCK_COLOR

From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang (franktang@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 29 2005 - 22:05:36 CST

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    BTW, it will be also nice, if you can include 1-3 URL of stock site which
    demostrate the use of the color in that region.

    2005/9/30, Frank Yung-Fong Tang <franktang@gmail.com>:
    >
    > This is not really an unicode issue, but i18n issue.
    >
    > For a long time, we all know the semantic of COLOR is an localization
    > issue, but I recently encounter an interesting one.
    > I found the COLOR used to mark the up and down of stock price is quite
    > different between west and east
    >
    > For example, most of the US web site use green for increase + and red for
    > decrease -
    > http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=YHOO
    >
    > But Taiwan and China use opposite color- red for increase + and green for
    > decrease -
    > (yea, in Taiwan, the bull market is literally 'red market' :) Red is good
    > and luck :) ) That make sense right.
    > and the expression "All the market is very very green" mean "stock market
    > crash" in Taiwan.
    >
    > I also found Korean use red for increase + and blue for decrease -
    >
    > http://kr.finance.yahoo.com/
    >
    > In the other hand http://quote.yahoo.co.jp/ use black for increase + and
    > red for decrease -
    >
    > I think it will be nice to collect the color data for locale :) Hopefully
    > you can help
    >
    > Here is how it work.
    >
    > For each country/region in
    > http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html , I would
    > like to collect
    > plus=
    > minus=
    >
    > For example,
    >
    > US:
    > pos=green
    > neg=red
    >
    > JP:
    > pos=black
    > neg=red
    >
    > TW:
    > pos=red
    > neg=green
    >
    > CN:
    > pos=red
    > neg=green
    >
    > KR:
    > pos=red
    > neg=blue
    >
    > Please indicate the ISO 3166 country code and send it to
    > FrankTang@gmail.com and make sure you put "LC_STOCK_COLOR" in the subject.
    >
    > And If I can collect more than 80 countries/regions in one month (by end
    > of Oct 2005), then I will draft a LC_STOCK_COLOR proposal and submit it to
    > CLDR
    >
    > Can you help me out or find someone to help me out.
    > When you submit your information to me, it will be nice if you can state
    > the quality of your understanding in term of confidence
    >
    > Confidence= Sure, Probably, Guess
    >
    > Thanks. And spam the right newsgroup for me please, :)
    >
    >
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