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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Designing improved character selector
From:       "John Tapsell" <johnflux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-03-04 13:50:43
Message-ID: 43d8ce650703040550j19999737h7fafc213e9b20adf () mail ! gmail ! com
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Can you put the image somewhere else?  I can't reach imageshack these days

On 04/03/07, Daniel Laidig <d.laidig@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2007 21:05, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > wait; a script can contain 1 or more blocks, with non-script-specific
> > blocks (e.g. notational symbols) being essentially presentable as
> "scripts"
> > as well, correct?
>
> No, at least not the scripts that the unicode data files and gucharmap use.
>
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Scripts.txt
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Blocks.txt
>
> Scripts don't contain blocks. For example, both U+0020 (Space) and U+0041
> (A)
> are in the block "Basic Latin". However, U+0020 is in the script "Common"
> and
> U+0041 in the script "Latin".
>
> > so... how about this:
> >
> > Font: [             ]  Script: [                   ] Block: [
> >  ]
> >
> > with the block combo showing the blocks associated with the given script,
> > as listed here:
> >
> > 	http://unicode.org/charts/
>
> I really like this idea. These are more categories than scripts as in the
> data
> files, but there should be no reason not to use these categories.
>
> I've sorted all blocks into 14 categories:
>
> European Alphabets
> African Scripts
> Middle Eastern Scripts
> Indic Scripts
> Philippine Scripts
> South East Asian Scripts
> East Asian Scripts TODO: Sort
> Central Asian Scripts
> Other Scripts
> Symbols
> Mathematical Symbols
> Phonetic Symbols
> Combining Diacritical Marks
> Other
>
> This should be OK for displaying in a combo box.
>
> Now, with you suggestions on IRC the selector looks like this:
> http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/657/kcharselectmockup6ya9.png
>
> IMHO this is the best mockup so far. Opinions?
>
> I will decide on the search options later when I have the possibility to
> test
> what's useful.
>
> Daniel
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