[MPEG-OTSPEC] Many to many substitution and localization

[William_J_G Overington]

John Hudson replied.
 
Thank you for replying.
 
John Hudson wrote as follows.
 
> Sorry if that sounds harsh, but you say elsewhere that you ‘appreciate 
> the difference of a character from a glyph’ and then proceed to 
> suggest glyph-level substitutions to affect character-level text 
> operations such as string translation.
 
Well, I am suggesting the substitution from the displaying of glyphs for
 
!983
 
to the displaying of glyphs for 
 
Diolch am ymweld.
 
if the end user has chosen Welsh, or to the displaying of glyphs for
 
Thank you for visiting.
 
if the end user has chosen English, or to the displaying of glyphs for
 
Merci de votre visite.
 
if the end user has chosen French, and so on, though not necessarily all 
in the same font. Maybe a separate font for each supported target 
language.
 
There is also a language-independent glyph to have the same meaning in 
any language. The inspiration for this is that Google street view used 
to have images of the then foyer of MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art in 
New York, and in one of them was a sign that had that meaning in six 
languages. There are many more than six languages in the world, and a 
sign cannot reasonably show a localization for all of them, so I thought 
that a language-independent symbol for that meaning would be good, so I 
designed one, later producing a different design, also a related 
language-independent symbol for
 
Welcome.
 
Please find attached two graphics that include those later designs of 
the symbols. The graphics are each a reduced size image of A3 size 
artwork.
 
William Overington
 
Saturday 28 September 2024
 
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