- From: 'Sören Preibusch' <Soren.Preibusch@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:12:36 -0000
- To: "public-privacy \(W3C mailing list\)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
Several proposals of iconographic representations of privacy concepts have been brought up by academia, industry and individual enthusiasts. Some of these proposals were discussed at the Workshop and over this list. The Unicode Standard, version 6.0 now introduces a plethora of over 750 new symbols, emoticons, and pictographs, including characters for sunrise over mountains (U+1F304), Bactrian camel (U+1F42B, "has two humps"), extraterrestrial alien (U+1F47D), circus tent (U+1F3AA), face screaming in fear (U+1F631), etc. Two (printable) characters may be more relevant for us: 1F50F LOCK WITH INK PEN = privacy 1F510 CLOSED LOCK WITH KEY = secure The subtext is the intended meaning. Visual representations can be found at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F300.pdf#page=10. As pointed out by the Consortium, "the glyphs in [the] charts are only representative; there can be wide variation in the glyphs used to represent any particular character". Whilst a single new character in this high range may not be interesting in itself, the combining characters in the standard, such as U+20E0 (combining enclosing circle backslash), can be added to express ideas such as "no privacy" or "not secure". Sören
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