- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 23:28:56 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
- Cc: james.homme@highmark.com
> I would like to legally obtain icons that mean things such as: To bring in an accidental thread, I suspect the best person to comment on good icons for abstract concepts would be an expert on Chinese character etymology. Unfortunately, in spite of some claims that Chinese will soon be the dominant language on the web, and the fact that the same de facto design standards apply to such pages as to English pages, I get the impression that no-one on this list has Chinese as their first language. Given that characters are icons (although many words are made by associating two of them), I wonder if people actually learn to read simple signs in Chinese without actually being fully literate, rather better than someone can cope with common printed words on signs. If they don't, it would be a bad sign for the use of icons on web pages. (Many characters have been abstracted from their original forms, which is why one needs a character etymologist.)
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